Bøger udgivet af Cleveland State University Poetry Center

"I love eagles and beagles! How do I explain?"I can't get them out of my little kid brain."I want my own eagle to raise from a chick.Or a beagle that loves when I teach him a trick."A little boy dreams and dreams of having a pet of his own. He surprises his mom and dad by asking for an eagle!! Or a beagle!! What will their answer be? Will this little boy show them that he's ready to care for and eagle or a beagle?This entertaining rhyming story, by Kathryn Lentz, will keep your child engaged while waiting to discover if the answer is yes or no to an eagle or a beagle.Ten eagle/beagle facts, found in the back, will further educate young readers about these special and interesting animals. I Want an Eagle or a Beagle is a rewarding read for ages 4-8. Kathryn Lentz is also the author of Gramps the Awesome Otter, Millie the Marvelous Mini, Max With One Ear Up and One Ear Down and Sage the Very Smart Bear.

Filled with adventure, and plenty of pizza covered fingers, "Pizza Fingers and Underwear Man: The Mighty Pronunciation Heroes" is the perfect tool for parents, teachers, and speech therapists to help children improve their language skills while having fun. Through engaging storytelling and vibrant illustrations, this children's book offers a fun and interactive way for children to learn and practice their pronunciation, helping them to feel more confident and successful in their communication. Join Pizza Fingers and Underwear Man on their heroic journey!

Winner of the 2018 CSU Poetry Center Open Book Competition, Selected by Samuel Amadon, Leora Fridman, & Jane Lewty.

Boss Baby C's is a family fun introduction to financial literacy and entrepreneurship! The Author Patrice worked with a young creative artist to illustrate the visuals to add a touch of inspiration to each reading session!

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Winner of the 2015 Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Wayne Koestenbaum. "Rarely have I come across tenderness, venom, and fire held so intimately, so exquisitely, as in Lily Hoang's A BESTIARY. This book would be impressive enough as a collection of finely-forged fragments, but as it weaves itself into an even more impressive whole, my hat came off. Lily Hoang writes like she has nothing to lose and everything at stake."--Maggie Nelson"A BESTIARY is a work of great subtlety, precision, intelligence, daring, and emotive keenness. It seems completely contemporary (by which I mean that it is unlike anything I've read and that it makes me want to change my own writerly procedures). With head-long, reckless, improvisatory gestures, Lily Hoang prompts us to rethink what literature today can dare to aspire to. Her intellectually magnanimous book's position on the threshold between recognizable 'literature' and some other vanguard form of performance/utterance made me feel happy and stimulated and dizzy (in a rapturous way) while I was reading it."--Wayne Koestenbaum "The most perfect use of fragmentation, myth, language, fairytale, and terrible beauty that I have ever seen in my life. I'm swooning. My faith in what writing can be has been restored."--Lidia Yuknavitch

Poetry. African American Studies. "From the 'sweet scat' and 'jump rope hymns' of wonder and wistfulness to the transformational, lithe, sexually charged energy of jazz, HURDY-GURDY earnestly explores the differences between what we want, what we get, and what we must be willing to pursue at any cost. This is an exciting book--at once fluid, shapely, and steady as stone--whose tensions lead us to an authentic meditative wholeness."--Mark Cox"This is not a poetry of the highfalutin violin nor the somber cello, but a melody you heard somewhere that followed you home. Elegant and silly, irreverent, fun and funny, Tim Seibles' poetry celebrates the spirit's little moments of holy joy."--Sandra Cisneros