Poet Emanuel di Pasquale takes us to Sicily, the Mediterranean island where he was born. His beautiful, lyrical poems recall the smell of the fig trees, the sound of the fountains, …

In 1988, poet Nikki Grimes visited the east coast of China and chronicled her experiences in her poetry. Distilling the delight and confusion of an African American traveler thous …

Celebrating diversity among Latinos, this groundbreaking middle-grade anthology includes affecting, memorable poems that appear in both English and Spanish, brief autobiographical …

From John Updike's "Player Piano" to Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," and from Lucille Clifton's "the earth is a living thing" to Gilette Burgess's "The Purple Cow," these …