Christle, Heather
Summary: Award-winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her own struggles with depression and the birth of her first child. How she faces her joy, grief, anxiety, impending motherhood, and conflicted truce with the world results in a moving meditation on the nature, rapture, and perils of crying--from the history of tear-catching gadgets (including the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHRISTLE, HEATHER CHRSummary: From Maxine Kumin in 1973 to Eamon Grennan in 1996, including Amy Clampitt, Marilyn Hacker, Paul Muldoon, Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, and U.S. poet laureates Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Louise Gluck, and Charles Simic, "Poetry in Person" follows an extraordinary range of poets as they create their poems and offers numerous illustrations of the original drafts, which bring their processes to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.608 POESummary: Presents a collection of twenty poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J808.1 KWAVázquez Paz, Johanny
Summary: A regular heartbeat is composed of the two sounds made when the blood flows through the organ as the valves contract. To listen to its rhythm through a stethoscope is to appreciate the slight distinction between two movements that are unequivocally connected - one beat calls, the other responds. Similarly, the two sections of Johanny Vázquez Paz's stunning book of poems offer the reader...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashinc Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 VAZSummary: Poets' night out is a juried poetry contest and reading held in Traverse City, Michigan. It is comprised of regional poets of all ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 Poets' 2006Summary: Poets' night out is a juried poetry contest and reading held in Traverse City, Michigan. It is comprised of regional poets of all ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 Poets' 2014Summary: Poets' night out is a juried poetry contest and reading held in Traverse City, Michigan. It is comprised of regional poets of all ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 Poets' 2002Summary: Poets' night out is a juried poetry contest and reading held in Traverse City, Michigan. It is comprised of regional poets of all ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 Poets' 2009Summary: Poets' night out is a juried poetry contest and reading held in Traverse City, Michigan. It is comprised of regional poets of all ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 Poets' 2005Summary: Poets' night out is a juried poetry contest and reading held in Traverse City, Michigan. It is comprised of regional poets of all ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 Poets' 2008Summary: "The Kresge Eminent Artist Award honors an exceptional artist in the visual, performing or literary arts for lifelong professional achievements and contributions to metropolitan Detroit's cultural community. Gloria House is the 2019 Kresge Eminent Artist. This monograph celebrates her life and work." -- Title page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kresge Foundation 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOUSE, GLORIA LIFSummary: Poets' night out is a juried poetry contest and reading held in Traverse City, Michigan. It is comprised of regional poets of all ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 Poets' 2001Summary: Poets' night out is a juried poetry contest and reading held in Traverse City, Michigan. It is comprised of regional poets of all ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 Poets' 2010Summary: Learn the fundamentals of writing and performing "spoken word" poetry from some of the most accomplished poets of the movement. Includes interviews with, and performances by, the 2004 National Slam Champions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Choices, Inc. 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POELimón, Ada.
Summary: The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion -- both toward and away from us--and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Limon reminds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2010
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Summary: "With this fascinating synthesis of word and image, internationally renowned photographer B.A. Van Sise offers a visually stimulating anthology that will enchant lovers of both poetry and photography. At times whimsical, surreal, challenging, enigmatic, joyful and sobering, these portraits--running adjacent to poems by each of their subjects--highlight some of the most influential poets of our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schaffner Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 779.2 VANSummary: Poems by each of the forty-three poets who have been named our nation's Poet Laureate since the post (originally called Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress) was established in 1937.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.508 POEPollitt, Katha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 POLEwing, 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 EWIRyan, Kay.
Summary: Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan's third book of verse, shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form. Engaging and secretive, provocative and profound, Ryan's poems have generated growing excitement with their appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Sometimes gaudily ornamental, sometimes Shaker-plain, here is verse that is compact on the page and expansive in the mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 RYALimón, 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 LIMSummary: An anthology of empowering poems grouped into eight themed categories, written by living, self-identified women writers for anyone who is, has been, or knows a teenage girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Write Bloody Publishing 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 COULimón, Ada
Summary: "An astonishing collection about interconnectedness--between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves--from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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Summary: Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it grapples with something more than an event: she writes of a whole life, to transcendent effect. By the end, we feel we have been witness to a poet remaking herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023