Includes teacher's guide. The program, which can be used to supplement social studies, art, music, and language arts classes, is set on a Greenwich Village street in New York City where students enter stores.
Students can browse poems according to such themes as motion, solitude, or relationship.
Using the tape recorder, users can listen to a variety of music and sounds as well as record their own poetry. In Eastside Books, students follow the text of poems and view artwork as they hear poets read their work and discuss their inspiration. In Sun Gallery, there are more than 80 Fine Art selections linked to the poems. WriterSpace offers a place where students express their own poetic thoughts as they listen to music, view art, hear readings, and use a Word Generator, which creates random word combinations. Audio, text, and artwork can be saved throughout the program on a printable Notepad.