Product Description: Spinning, I can't stop spinning, so stay a minute, and I, Arachne, will spin a story for you . . .In this singular collection, the heroes and heroines of fifteen Greek and Roman tales give their own dramatic accounts of events. From the magnificent spinner Arachne, who learns that a mortal should never challenge a god, to the god Pan, who prefers Earth to Mount Olympus, to the beautiful, self-indulgent Pandora and the gold-stricken Midas―the reader becomes a confidant to the tellers of these sometimes humorous, sometimes sad, always engaging tales of wonder, woe, romantic love, and jealousy...read more

Product Description: Josephine Jacobsen left behind a legacy of almost a dozen books and several considerable honors, including a position as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1971–1973), the 1988 Lenore Marshall Award, the 1993 Shelley Memorial Award, and the Poetry Society of America’s highest honor—the Robert Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry—in 1997...read more

Product Description: "Spires is a jewel of a poet, never self-conscious or self-indulgent."―Los Angeles Times Opening with a powerful sequence of poems about her mother's death, Elizabeth Spires writes about the life-and-death matters of midlife: the separation of parent from child, the loss of family and friends, the evolving nature of our closest friendships...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

When Little Cat unleashes a rather loud and startling meow, he disrupts catnaps, scares the feathers off of the catbirds in the catalpa tree, and even engulfs the sun, in a delightful story of learning how to embrace one's differences.

Josephine Jacobsen, born in 1908, had her first poem published when she was just ten years old. Though Jacobsen has been writing and publishing for almost eighty years, she remained outside the literary world until she was named Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971. She has since been honored numerous times, receiving such prestigious awards as the annual Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism and Occasional Prose joins recent collections of Jacobsen's poetry and short stories, bringing together for the first time the highlights of this distinguished poet's long and varied career as a literary critic, lecturer, and reviewer. Of special interest are two lectures delivered at the Library of Congress while she was Consultant in Poetry there, and a rich assortment of never before collected op-ed and travel pieces from the Baltimore Sun. The volume also includes critical pieces on Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, e.e. cummings, Robert Lowell, A.R. Ammons, Samuel Beckett, and J.D. Salinger; an unpublished lecture, "The Admiring Bog," on the perils of poetic celebrity; and an extended interview with John Wheatcroft. The book is edited and introduced by the poet Elizabeth Spires, and concludes with three recent, uncollected poems of Jacobsen's.Josephine Jacobsen is author of In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems ( 1995), a nominee for the National Book Award, and What Goes Without Saying Collected Short Stories (1996.) She continues to live and write in Baltimore. Elizabeth Spires is a writer-in-residence, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, and the author of four collections of poetry. (view table of contents)

When she moves into Emily Dickinson's bedroom, Emmaline the mouse discovers her own propensity for poetry.

When she moves into Emily Dickinson's bedroom, Emmaline the mouse discovers her own propensity for poetry.

Product Description: Contributors to this issue include: Penelope Austin, Aliki Barnstone, Bruce Beasley, Geoffrey Becker, John Bensko, Dinah Berland, Kate Borowske, Michael Collier, Carolyn Cooke, Wyn Cooper, Theodore Deppe, Timothy Donnelly, Walt Foreman, Carol Frost, George Garrett, Frank X...read more

A collection of twenty-six original riddles with clues given in the illustrations

A collection of poems reflects on conception, birth, life, the passage of time, and death

Poems explore a variety of themes including love, faith, redemption, spirituality, nature, and childhood

A collection of poems reflects on conception, birth, life, the passage of time, and death

Twenty-six original word and picture puzzles provide tantalizing verbal and pictorial hints to riddles whose answers range from food to flowers, bugs to toys.

A star decides it wants to shine day and night, so it travels to Earth, but homesick, it decides to journey back to the night sky

Product Description: Poetry collection.