[MOSAIC] 'Cool Salsa' poetry book

[Robins Maureen (25Q194)]

Cool Salsa is a wonderful book but perhaps some of the poem might be too mature for an elementary setting. Poetry Speaks and its sister volume Poetry Speaks for Children are terrific ways to listen to the poet reading his or her works. On Poetry Speaks you can hear Syliva Plath (scary) as well as Elizabeth Bishop (nearly flat and foreign sounding). I also recommend the "listening room" link to the Academy of American Poets (poetry.org) as well as Robert Pinsky's "Favorite Poem" website. On both of those websites it is possible to see the words as well as listen to the poem. Of course on the Favorite Poem website there are also videos of people discussing why a poem is their favorite. In addition the actor John Lithgow is publishign a book Poets corner: The One and Only P9oetry Book for the whole family and in it is a bonus CD and each chapeter contains a website where one might go to for to hear the poet read the work. 

Maureen Robins
Literacy Coach
NYC

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From: mosaic-bounces at literacyworkshop.org on behalf of Waingort Jimenez, Elisa
Sent: Thu 7/12/2007 11:19 PM
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] 'Cool Salsa' poetry book
 
I have a copy.  A friend gave it to me for a present a few years back.  
I've never been able to use it in the classroom, though.
Elisa Waingort
Calgary, Canada
 
In my searching for the books with the cd's of the authors reading their 
poems, I came across this book that looks fabulous.

Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States
www.amazon.com/Cool-Salsa-Lori-Carlson/dp/customer-reviews/044970436X

Poems are in Spanish and English.
Anyone know of it?
Ginger