Poetry Education

"Once Upon a Tree: Inspirational Poetry to Awaken Faith, Hope and Love" is an inspiring collection of thought provoking poetry with something for people from all walks of life, background and cultures. It dismantles the big question "why?" This anthology is a tool that can be used to open the door to hope, faith, and love. It is a timely audiobook, refreshing and current with simple and meaningful poetry for all ages, a great investment and encouragement in testing times.

For Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High School's Spoken Word Club, there is one phrase that reigns supreme: Respect the Mic. It's been the club's call to arms since its inception in 1999. As its founder Peter Kahn says, "It's a call of pride and history and tradition and hope." This vivid new collection of poetry and prose - curated by award-winning and bestselling poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Peter Kahn, and Dan "Sully" Sullivan - illuminates just that, uplifting the incredible legacy this community has cultivated.

After the death of her child, a grief-stricken psychotherapist, teacher, and writer volunteers as a poetry teacher at a residential treatment facility for “delinquent” girls. Here, their mutual support nourishes and enriches each other, though not without large quantities of drama and recalcitrance. Compelling, appealing, poignant, and often hilarious, I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent chronicles the passion that grew for pushing voices out into the world.