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Honoring Poetry Month April 2024
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This is the honey : an anthology of contemporary Black poets
by Kwame Alexander
Exploring joy, love, origin, race, resistance and praise, this beautiful poetry anthology, featuring works from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, is filled with poignant and delightful imagery, music and raised fists.
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I don't want this poem to end : early and late poems
by Maòhmåud Darwåish
When the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died in 2008, his friends visited his home and retrieved poems and writings some of which are gathered together in this volume, translated into English for the first time. They include three collections from different phases in Darwish’s writing career, as well as reminiscences by friends drawn from the poet’s final years, and a moving account of the discovery of the new poems in this collection.
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The 100 best African American poems : (but I cheated)
by Nikki Giovanni
Contains the 100 best works from classic and contemporary African-American poets, as selected by an award-winning black poet and activist, in a book that also includes a CD of many of the poems being read by the poets themselves.
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Call us what we carry : poems
by Amanda Gorman
The presidential inaugural poet—and unforgettable new voice in American poetry—presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.
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Poet warrior : a memoir
by Joy Harjo
"Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life."
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The best American poetry
by Robert Hass
An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry.
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Testimony, a Tribute to Charlie Parker : With New and Selected Jazz Poems
by Yusef Komunyakaa
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa is well known for his jazz poetry, and this book is the first to bring together the verve and vitality of his oeuvre. The centerpiece of this volume is the libretto "Testimony." Twenty-eight additional poems spanning the breadth of Komunyakaa's career are included, including two never previously published.
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Looking out, looking in : anthology of Latino poetry
by William Luis
More than 80 Latino poets are represented in this wide-ranging collection that focuses on poetry from the four largest groups in the United States: Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans and Dominican Americans. In his introduction, scholar William Luis gives an overview of the origins of Latino literature in the United States, providing historical, political and cultural frameworks for these groups and their writings.
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Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver
by Mary Oliver
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet offers a carefully curated selection of her definitive writings in a volume spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. By the author of Felicity.
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The beats : a graphic history
by Harvey Pekar
A tour of America's forefront underground literary movement, presented in a graphic tale format with contributions by such underground artists as Trina Robbins and Peter Kuper, includes coverage of such topics as the Benzedrine-fueled antics of Jack Kerouac, Chicago's beatnik bistro, and San Francisco's City Lights bookstore.
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The poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
The daughter of devout immigrants discovers the power of slam poetry and begins participating in a school club as part of her effort to understand her mother's strict religious beliefs and her own developing relationship to the world. A first novel.
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Shout
by Laurie Halse Anderson
A memoir in verse shares the author's life, covering her rape at thirteen, her difficult early childhood, and her experiences surrounding her publication of Speak.
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Black girl magic
by Mahogany L. Browne
Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys’ club, and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine form.
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Me (Moth)
by Amber McBride
Moth, who lost her family in an accident, feels alone and uprooted, but when she meets Sani, a boy who is also searching for his roots, she finds a kindred spirit, and together they embark on a road trip that connects them to the ghosts of their ancestors.
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For every one
by Jason Reynolds
An inspirational poem written to the dreamers of the world, which was originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers.
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An impossible thing to say
by Arya Shahi
In the aftermath of 9/11, high school sophomore Omid grapples with finding the right words to connect with his grandfather, embrace his Iranian heritage, and express his feelings towards a girl, until he immerses himself in the rhymes and rhythms of rap music and finds his voice.
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Punching the air
by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
The award-winning author of American Street and the prison reform activist of the Exonerated Five trace the story of a young artist and poet whose prospects at a diverse art school are threatened by a racially biased system and a tragic altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood.
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Something, someday
by Amanda Gorman
This stunning new picture book by the presidential inaugural poet and a Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator shows how even the smallest gesture can have a lasting impact and how, with a little faith and friendship, we can find beauty and create change.
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Kiyoshi's walk
by Mark Karlins
Kiyoshi asks his grandfather, the wise poet Eto, where poems come from, and Eto takes him on a walk through the city to seek an answer.
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When clouds touch us
by Thanhháa Lòai
This breathtaking novel in verse, inspired by the author's experience, follows Hà and her family, refugees from the Vietnam War, as they move to Texas for a new job, and despite not wanting to start over again, Hà discovers unwanted change can bring a good opportunity.
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My poet
by Patricia MacLachlan
"In this mesmerizing picture book, a little girl wants to write, and one summer day she joins the poet who lives nearby to explore a town on Cape Cod. Together, they look. Together, they touch. Together, they find words. All things in the natural world, the girl discovers, bring words to the poet. Can the girl find the words to write her own poetry, too?"
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Snuggle up with Mother Goose
by Iona Opie
Selected poems from Opie's classic Mother Goose nursery rhyme compilations are bound in a baby-friendly board book format ideally suited for lap reading and sleepytime. Illustrated by the award-winning creator of the Max and Ruby series.
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What was the Harlem Renaissance?
by Sherri L. Smith
This illustrated addition to the What Was…? series traces Harlem's history all the way back to its 17th-century roots, explaining how the early 20th-century Great Migration brought African Americans from the deep South to New York City and gave birth to the golden years of the Harlem Renaissance.
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