Funny Poems (2003) Writing Winning Reports and Essays (2003) Opening a Door: Reading Poetry in the Middle School Classroom (2003) Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing (2004) How to Write Haiku and Other Short Poems (2004) Rhyming Dictionary [with Sun Young] (2006) The Dark Game (2010) Anthologies The Crystal Image (1977) Postcard Poems: A Collection of Poetry for Sharing (1979) Don't Forget to Fly: A Cycle of Modern Poems (1981) Poetspeak: In Their Work, About Their Work, A Special Kind of Poetry Anthology (1983) Strings: A Gathering of Family Poems (1984) Pocket Poems: Poems Selected for a Journey (1985) This Delicious Day: 65 Poems (1987) Going Over to Your Place: Poems for Each Other (1987) The Music of What Happens: Poems That Tell Stories (1988) The Place My Words Are Looking For: What Poets Say About and Through Their Work (1990) Preposterous: Poems of Youth (1991) Looking for Your Name: A Collection of Contemporary Poems (1993) Poetry from A to Z: A Guide for Young Writers (1994) Wherever Home Begins: 100 Contemporary Poems (1995) I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Presented in Pairs [with Naomi Shihab Nye] (1996) Home on the Range: Cowboy Poetry (1997) Very Best (Almost) Friends: Poems of Friendship (1999) Stone Bench In An Empty Park (2000) A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems (2001) Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices (2001) Blushing: Expressions of Love in Poems and Letters (2004) A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms (2005) Hey, You! Poems to Skyscrapers, Mosquitoes, and Other Fun Things (2007) The Death of the Hat: A Brief History of Poetry in 50 Objects (2015) References External links Literary profile at Schoolwide.com Contemporary Authors Online, Gale Literature Resource Center, 2002 Lesesne, T. S. (1996). "Paul Janeczko". Emergency Librarian, 23(3), 61-64. 1945 births 2019 deaths Writers from Passaic, New Jersey University of New England (United States) alumni