Viorst, Judith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 VIOMcKinney, Jane
Summary: From a mother and daughter comes a book in prose and poetry about change, loss, and the joy they discover in small things, including a daily ritual they call their “chair chat.”After losing her husband of sixty-three years and six weeks later, her beloved dog, Jane McKinney finds solace in writing poetry. Feeling isolated from her six children, she relocates from Arizona to an independent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MCKLimón, Ada
Summary: "Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--And a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMHarjo, Joy
Summary: A collection of poems from the first Native American US Poet Laureate, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land, that opens a dialogue with history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 811 HARHarjo, Joy
Summary: A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HARRosen, Michael
Summary: "'They were there at the beginning of the war, but they were gone by the end. I suppose they died in the camps.' Thats all young Michael Rosen, born in England just after the end of the Second World War, was told about the six great-aunts and great-uncles who had been living in Poland or France at the beginning of that war. This wasnt enough for him. So, as an adult, he started to search. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 ROSHarjo, Joy
Summary: A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HARYoung, Alora
Summary: "A true American epic in verse, Walking Gentry Home tells the story of Alora Young's ancestors, from the unnamed women the historical record has forgotten but Alora brings to life through imagination; to Amy, the first of her foremothers to arrive in Tennessee, buried in an unmarked grave unlike the white man who enslaved her and fathered her child; through Alora's great-grandmother Gentry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 YOUNye, Naomi Shihab
Summary: A collection of poems about family and the love we share with one another throughout life's peaks and valleys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 NYEAlarcón, Francisco X.
Summary: Presents a series of brief poems in English and Spanish for each day of the week that celebrate the joys of family and other relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 811 ALAThomas, Joyce Carol.
Summary: Poems for each month of the year celebrate the themes of family love, individuality, and Afro-American identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 THOCastle, Jiordan
Summary: "Moving and evocative, this YA memoir-in-verse follows author Jiordan Castle's coming-of-age as her family reckons with the aftershocks of her father's imprisonment"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CASSummary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WESBirbiglia, Mike
Summary: "Mike Birbiglia never wanted to be a father. In fact, there are seven very specific reasons he never wanted a kid, including his aversion to sticky surfaces and his less-than-ideal genes: he's had Lyme Disease, a bladder tumor, diabetes, and dangerous sleepwalking, to name a few. Not to mention the fact that Mike generally doesn't think people (including himself) are really all that great. Then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIRBIGLIA, MIKE BIRHeppermann, Christine.
Summary: "Christine Heppermann's powerful collection of free verse poems explore how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, their friends--as consumers, as objects, as competitors. Based on classic fairy tale characters and fairy tale tropes, the poems range from contemporary retellings to first person accounts set within the original stories. From Snow White cottage and Rapunzel's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 HEPCooper, Paul M. M.
Summary: "In thirteenth-century Sri Lanka, Asanka, poet to the king, lives a life of luxury, enjoying courtly life and a sweet, furtive love affair with a palace servant, a village girl he is teaching to write. But when Magha, a prince from the mainland, usurps the throne, Asanka's role as court poet dramatically alters. Magha is a cruel and calculating king--and yet, a lover of poetry--and he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COOBarker, Cicely Mary.
Summary: Illustrated poems depict the fairies who live among the spring flowers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frederick Warne 2008
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Summary: Twenty-four illustrated poems depict the fairies who live in the garden among the crocuses, snapdragons, and other flowers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frederick Warne 2008
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Summary: "The poems that inspired Fairyopolis"--p.4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frederick Warne 2008
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Summary: "Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her 'poet-warrior' road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 HARJO, JOY HARBarker, Cicely Mary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 1997
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Summary: "Emily Dickinson is revered as one of America's greatest and most original poets. Quiet Fire presents the life and art of Dickinson through the poet's own letters and poems"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 DICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA DICKINSON DOMMeltzer, Milton
Summary: Examines the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century Massachusetts poet whose posthumously published poetry brought her the public attention she had carefully avoided during her lifetime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2006