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African Americans African Americans Juvenile poetry African Americans Poetry American poetry American poetry 21st century American poetry African American authors American poetry African American authors 21st century Children's poetry, American Noirs américains Poésie pour la jeunesse PoetryEwing, Eve L.
Summary: Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances; blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 EWIWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEAAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad--the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance. Paired with full-color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins in a format that will appeal to fans of Mahogany L. Browne's Black Girl Magic or Jason...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 ACEGreenfield, Eloise.
Summary: Describes the period of the 20th century when many African Americans left the South to make better lives for themselves in the northern states.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J811 GREJess, Tyehimba
Summary: "Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them,"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wave Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 JESNelson, Marilyn
Summary: George Washington Carver was determined to help the people he loved. Born a slave in Missouri, he left home in search of an education, eventually earning his master's degree. When Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, Carver truly found his calling. He spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to the poverty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 811.54 NELReynolds, Jason
Summary: "A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC REYAvery, J. Nailah
Summary: "This lyrical poem tells the story of Black History in America, from slavery to the Civil Rights movement to present day struggles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AVESummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: In this collection of poems, a child expresses love and affection for Daddy and reflects on the many times Daddy talks to God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Grimes 2002Johnson, Javon
Summary: "Johnson takes us on a journey and each poem serves as a guide to understanding black life in America... Ain't never not been black is a healing salve, a sonic ointment that soothes the wounds of white supremacy and daily pricks of antiblack racism, reminding us of the beautiful bounty that blackness always has been and always will be"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry / Exploding Pinecone Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 JOHAlexander, Kwame
Summary: "The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J811 ALEHughes, Langston
Summary: A brief profile of African American poet Langston Hughes accompanies some of his better known poems for children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.52 HUGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.52 HUGSummary: In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, and Nikki Giovanni, This Is the Honey is a rich and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: "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, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds's rallying cry to the dreamers of the world. Jump Anyway is for kids who dream. Kids who dream of being better than they are....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 REYGarrett, Van G.
Summary: "This is a love letter to sneakers. But not just any sneakers. Only the flyest, floatiest, you-est kicks you can get--the ones that let you soar! This colorful, rhythmic adventure has something to offer anyone who prizes a great pair of shoes and any reader who loves to play with words"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: Collection of 80 new poems and prose pieces including some about slavery, Rosa Parks, Hurricane Katrina, Emmett Till, Nina Simone, Dorothy Height, Mari Evans, Gwendolyn Brooks, June Jordan, Richard Fewell, the Ishley Brothers, Jackie Robinson, librarians, and libraries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIOGrimes, Nikki
Summary: "In this collection of poetry, Nikki Grimes looks afresh at the poets of the Harlem Renaissance -- including voices like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and many more writers of importance and resonance from this era -- by combining their work with her own original poetry. Using "The Golden Shovel" poetic method, Grimes has written a collection of poetry that is as gorgeous as it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 GRIHarris, Francine J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 HARContents: Letter to America / Francisco Alarcon -- Lawd, dese Colored chillum / Fareedah Allah -- Powwow / Carroll Arnett/Gogisgi -- Song of the breed / Carroll Arnett/Gogisgi -- Late bus (after a series of hold-ups) / Russell Atkins -- So Mexicans are taking jobs from Americans / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- There are black / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- The old man's lazy / Peter Blue Cloud -- The lovers of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 LETJohnson, Amaud Jamaul
Summary: "Imperial Liquor is a chronicle of melancholy, a reaction to the monotony of racism. These poems concern loneliness, fear, fatigue, rage, and love; they hold fatherhood held against the vulnerability of the black male body, aging, and urban decay. Part remembrance, part swan song for the Compton, California of the 1980s, Johnson examines the limitations of romance to heal broken relationships...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 JOHSummary: Contains one hundred poems from classic and contemporary African American poets, as selected by an award-winning black poet and activist, including such writers as Robert Hayden, Mari Evans, Kevin Young, and Rita Dove.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks MediaFusion 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.008 GIOEisen-Martin, Tongo
Summary: "A rhapsodic follow-up to Tongo Eisen-Martin's Heaven is All Goodbyes, this collection further explores themes of love and loss, family and faith, refracted through the lens of Black experience. These poems honor intellectual tradition and ancestral knowledge while blazing an entirely new path, recording and replaying the poet's sensory travels through America, from its packed metropolises to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2021