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Out of wonder : poems celebrating poets

Call Number

  • DVD CHILDREN/FAMILY (EAS)

Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

Narrated by Ron Butler, MacLeod Andrews and Erin Bennett.

Publication Information

Holland, OH : Dreamscape Media, LLC, [2018]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (77 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Ages 9-11.

Summary

Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, these celebratory original poems pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors' hearts sing and their minds wander.

Notes

Title from container.

"Read-a-long"--Container.

Based on the book Out of wonder by Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderly, and Marjory Wentworth and illustrations by Ekua Holmes.

Contents

  • How to write a poem : celebrating Naomi Shihab Nye
  • In every season : celebrating Robert Frost
  • I like your : celebrating e.e. cummings
  • Contemporary haiku : celebrating Bashō
  • Snapshots : celebrating Nikki Giovanni
  • Jazz jive jam : celebrating Langston Hughes
  • Walter, age ten : celebrating Walter Dean Myers
  • A field of roses : celebrating Emily Dickinson
  • The blue alphabet : celebrating Terrance Hayes
  • How Billy Collins writes a poem : celebrating Billy Collins
  • The music of the earth : celebrating Pablo Neruda
  • Tambourine things : celebrating Judith Wright
  • (Loving) The world and everything in it : celebrating Mary Oliver
  • Hue and cry : celebrating Gwendolyn Brooks
  • The poet inside me : celebrating Sandra Cisneros
  • No idle days : celebrating William Carlos Williams
  • Song of Uhuru : celebrating Okot p'Bitek
  • For our children's children : celebrating Chief Dan George
  • Spin a song : celebrating Rumi
  • Majestic : celebrating Maya Angelou
  • About the poets being celebrated.

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