Love poems

• RC 46502
  Author: Nikki Giovanni
  Fifty-four poems by an award-winning African American writer celebrating love in its many manifestations: for a lover, for a friend, for a member of the family, in the abstract, and in the concrete. Grouped in three sections: "I Hope It’s Love," "And Yeah . . . These Are Love Poems," and "I Take Master Card (Charge Your Love to Me)." 1997.

Delights & shadows

• RC 60382
  Author: Ted Kooser
  Some fifty verses by the U.S. poet laureate about simple but remarkable aspects of everyday life. Includes "Walking on Tiptoe," "A Winter Morning," "Old Lilacs," "Garage Sale," "A Jar of Buttons," and "Surviving," in which Kooser reflects on the ways his fear of death has illuminated life. Pulitzer Prize. 2004.

45/96: the Ninety-six sampler of South Carolina poetry

• CBC 00343
  Contains nearly 200 poems by some of the state’s most accomplished poets. Contributors include William A. Arnes, Melanie Gause Harris, Bennie Lee Sinclair, Deno Trakas, Grace Freeman. 1994.

The 20th century children’s poetry treasury

• RC 50086
  Anthology of 211 poems by 137 poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, John Ciardi, e.e. cummings, Roald Dahl, Robert Frost, Nikki Grimes, Russell Hoban, Langston Hughes, Karla Kushin, Myra Cohn Livingston, A.A. Milne, Ogden Nash, Carl Sandburg, Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein, and Judith Viorst. For grades 2-4 and older readers. 1999.

American poetry: the nineteenth century, v. 2, Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, American Indian poetry, Folk songs and spirituals

• RC 38790
  This volume presents mid-and late-nineteenth-century poems by Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson; song lyrics such as "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" by Stephen Foster and "America the Beautiful" by Katharine Lee Bates; and a generous sampling of poems by Native and African Americans. 1993.

Americans’ favorite poems: the Favorite Poem Project anthology

• RC 50000
  Two hundred poems selected by Americans as their favorites in response to an appeal from poet laureate Pinsky to mark the bicentennial of the Library of Congress. Each work is preceded by comments on why it was chosen. Writers represented include Anna Akhmatova, John Ashbery, Andrew Marvell, Pablo Neruda, W.B. Yeats, and others. 2000.