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Daniel finds a poem
by Micha Archer
The illustrator of Lola's Fandango features painted cut-paper artwork in an invitation to discover poetry in nature that finds a young boy visiting the park and learning from new animal friends what they perceive as poetry.
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Poem in my pocket
by Chris Tougas
Perfect for National Poetry Month, this highly innovative celebration of poetry and creativity doubles as an imaginative rhyming adventure tale and a wonderful allegory for the creative writing process.
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How to write a poem
by Kwame Alexander
In this evocative and playful companion to their New York Times bestselling picture book How to Read a Book, Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander teams up with poet Deanna Nikaido and Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet to celebrate the magic of discovering your very own poetry in the world around you.
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The real Dada Mother Goose : a treasury of complete nonsense
by Jon Scieszka
Clever and creative, this anthology of absurdity takes 36 classic nursery rhymes and alters them into comic strips, errant book reports, anagrams and manic mash-ups, encouraging children to revel in reimagining. Illustrations.
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Sing a song of seasons : a nature poem for each day of the year
by Fiona Waters
A lavishly illustrated collection of 366 nature poems, one for every day of the year, includes selections by such iconic masters as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes. Illustrated by the award-winning artist of The Journey Home.
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Becoming Muhammad Ali : a novel
by James Patterson
A biographical novel tells the story of Cassius Clay, the determined boy who would one day become Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers of all time.
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No matter the distance
by Cindy Baldwin
Finding a dolphin stranded in the creek behind their house as her cystic fibrosis flares up, Penny forms an immediate connection with the stranded creature she names Rose and must get Rose back to her pod even if it means losing her.
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Call Us What We Carry: Poems
by Amanda Gorman
The presidential inaugural poet — and an unforgettable new voice in American poetry — presents a breakout collection of poems.
Want a taste?
"This book is a message in a bottle.
This book is a letter.
This book does not let up.
This book is awake.
This book is a wake.
For what is a record but a reckoning?"
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Inheritance: A Visual Poem
by Elizabeth Acevedo; illustrated by Andrea Pippins
What it is: An illustrated celebration of Black hair, with frank commentary on prejudice.
Don't miss: Pippins's vibrant, full-color illustrations complement the poem and feature a diverse Black and Afro-Latin American cast.
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Ain't Burned All the Bright
by Jason Reynolds; illustrated by Jason Griffin
What it is: A poetic exploration of recent events in America told in three parts, or "breaths."
About the author: Jason Reynolds's award-winning books for teens include Long Way Down, Stamped, All American Boys, and more.
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Ink knows no borders : poems of the immigrant and refugee experience
by Patrice Vecchione
With authenticity, integrity, and insight, this collection of poems addresses the many issues confronting first- and second- generation young adult immigrants and refugees, such as cultural and language differences, homesickness, social exclusion, human rights, racism, stereotyping, and questions of identity. Poems by Elizabeth Acevedo, Erika L. Sánchez, Samira Ahmed, Chen Chen, Ocean Vuong, Fatimah Asghar, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Bao Phi, Kaveh Akbar, Hala Alyan, and Ada Limón, among others, encourage readers to honor their roots as well as explore new paths, offering empathy and hope for those who are struggling to overcome discrimination.
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Home is not a country
by Safia Elhillo
A novel in verse follows the experiences of a misfit teen in a discriminatory suburban community who questions her mixed heritage before unexpected family revelations force her to fight for her own identity.
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Ordinary hazards : a memoir
by Nikki Grimes
The author recounts her traumatic childhood, with a mother suffering from mental illness, unfortunate experiences in a series of foster homes, and her discovery of her love of writing, which eventually helped her overcome the hazards of her life.
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A million quiet revolutions
by Robin Gow
A modern love story told in verse, Oliver and Aaron, when Aaron moves away, write each other letters, inspired by two Revolutionary soldiers, who they believe to be trans men in love, and must each take ownership of their own stories.
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Some of the light : new and selected poems
by Tim Z. Hernandez
"Some of the Light: New & Selected gathers the first 25 years of Hernandez's award-winning poetry, offering a glimpse at the trajectory of a rising contemplative American author. At its core, Some of the Light contains collected poems of love, told through the lens of a single father raising two children alone in the borderlands. They are at times intimate and confessional, telescoping from personal relationships to spiritual inquiry, from human rights to the environment, while between the cracks of the poems are poetic contemplations, chronicling the passing days of the pandemic"
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The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void by Jackie WangThe poems in The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void read like dispatches from the dream world, with Jackie Wang acting as our trusted comrade reporting across time and space. By sharing her personal index of dreams with its scenes of solidarity and resilience, interpersonal conflict and outlaw jouissance, Wang embodies historical trauma and communal memory. Here, the all-too-familiar interplay between crisis and resistance becomes first distorted, then clarified and refreshed. With a light touch and invigorating sense of humor, Wang illustrates the social dimension of dreams and their ability to inform and reshape the dreamer's waking world with renewed energy and insight.
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Border vista : poems
by Anni Liu
In Border Vista, winner of the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, Anni Liu intimately narrates experiences of being undocumented, or precariously documented, in America, in poems that move between China and the United States.
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Look at this blue : a poem
by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Truths about what we have lost and have yet to lose permeate this book-length poem by American Book Award winner and Fulbright scholar Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. An assemblage of historical record and lyric fragments, these poems form a taxonomy of threatened lives-human, plant, and animal-in a century marked by climate emergency. Look at This Blue insists upon a reckoning with and redress of America's continuing violence toward Earth and its peoples, as Hedge Coke's cataloguing of loss crescendos into resistance.
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Yellow rain : poems
by Mai Der Vang
In this staggering work of documentary, poetry, and collage, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. The truth of what happened to the Hmong, to those who experienced and suffered yellow rain, has been ignored and discredited. Integrating archival research and declassified documents, Yellow Rain calls out the erasure of a history, the silencing of a people who at the time lacked the capacity and resources to defend and represent themselves. In poems that sing and lament, that contend and question, Vang restores a vital narrative in danger of being lost, and brilliantly explores what it means to have access to the truth and how marginalized groups are often forbidden that access.
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Neruda
After Chilean poet and communist Pablo Neruda criticizes the president, he becomes the target of a manhunt led by a fascist police prefect and needs to go into hiding.
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Poetic Justice
The poetry of Maya Angelou is at the heart of Boyz N the Hood director John Singleton's second film. Janet Jackson makes her film debut as Justice, a hairdresser who becomes emotionally withdrawn after her boyfriend is fatally shot.
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Dead poets society
A prep school English teacher inspires his students with poetry and encourages them to seize the day and embrace life.
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Guys reading poems /
A boy, who lives with his mentally troubled mother, transforms his sufferings into poetry.
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