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Langston Hughes, poetLangston’s Train Ride by Robert Burleigh, illustrated by Leonard Jenkins (Orchard, 2004)
When Hughes was eighteen, he took a train from Ohio to Mexico. During his journey he wrote one of his most famous poems, The Negro Speaks of Rivers. This is the story of that ride and creation of that poem.
PoetryFoundation.org hosts several of Hughes’ poems.
Carl Sandburg, poet and more Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Harcourt, 1994)
“The fog comes on little cat feet,” begins one of Sandburg’s most famous poems. American poet, newspaperman, biographer, children’s author…Sandburg won not one, but two Pulitzer Prizes.
At the Carl Sandburg Home, run by the National Park Service, kids can Jump aboard! and learn more about the Poet of the People through his poems, songs he collected, and film clips.
How We Are Smart by W. Nikola-Lisa, illustrated by Sean Qualls (Lee & Low Books, 2006)
There are lots of ways of being smart. This collection of twelve talented people includes a portrait, short profile and a poem about Alexander Posey.
An 1933 article from Oklahoma’s Historical Society, Chronicles of Oklahoma provides additional insight into Posey’s life.
Langston Hughes, poetLangston’s Train Ride by Robert Burleigh, illustrated by Leonard Jenkins (Orchard, 2004)
When Hughes was eighteen, he took a train from Ohio to Mexico. During his journey he wrote one of his most famous poems, The Negro Speaks of Rivers. This is the story of that ride and creation of that poem.
PoetryFoundation.org hosts several of Hughes’ poems.
Emily Dickinson, writerEmily by Michael Bedard, illustrated by Barbara Cooney (Doubleday, 1992)
This is a fictionalized account of a young girl’s encounter with her Amherst, Massachusetts, neighbor—the reclusive poet, Emily Dickinson.
Visit The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, for tours and information.
