Bowles, David (David O.)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Güero, a red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid, discovers the joy of writing poetry, thanks to his seventh grade English teacher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BOWGrimes, Nikki
Summary: "Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 921 Grimes 2019Giovanni, Nikki
Summary: The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. Giovanni offers an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811 GIOAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ACEHughes, Ted
Summary: Love poems from a husband to a wife who committed suicide. The writer is poet laureate to Queen Elizabeth II. His wife, Sylvie Plath, who was also a poet, gassed herself in 1963 after writing, "Dying is an art, like everything else." The couple are still the subject of controversy in England, some claiming he drove her to it, others that she was an impossible wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.914 HUGReynolds, Jason
Summary: "Jason Reynold. Jason Griffin. One a poet. One an artist. One Black. One white. Two voices. One journey. To move to New York, and make it in New York. Best friends willing to have a hard life if it meant a happy life. All they needed was a chance. A reissue of a memoir of a moment in time within a lifetime of friendship"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 REYAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Curvaceous sixteen-year-old Xiomara Batista discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her fiercely religious mother's view of women, as well as her relationship to a world dominated by rape-culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ACESummary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUMSummary: 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 Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 OUTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.1 OUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J808.1 KWAGiovanni, Nikki
Summary: The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. Giovanni offers an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 811 GIOPollitt, 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 POLGiovanni, Nikki
Summary: One of America’s most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her. The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer, and a sage; a wise and courageous voice who has spoken out on the sensitive issues, including race and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 811 GIOChang, Lan Samantha.
Summary: Two students at a renowned writing school, Roman and Bernard, vie for the admiration of their charismatic and mysterious poet professor and forge a relationship that has lasting repercussions on their art and their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHATagore, Rabindranath
Summary: Annotation A substantial selection ofpoems by Tagore (1861-1941), the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, and India's greatest modern poet. He was the most brilliant creative genius produced by the Indian Renaissance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodaxe Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 891.4415 TAGRyan, 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 RYAHerrera, Juan Felipe
Summary: "When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet. His breathtaking poem "Imagine" and Lauren Castillo's evocative illustrations will speak to every reader and dreamer searching for this...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG HERNehanda, Walela
Summary: "When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don't use their correct pronouns, and hordes of "well-meaning" but patronizing people offering unsolicited advice as they navigate rocky personal relationships and share their story online. But this experience also deepens their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 NEHHerrera, Juan Felipe
Summary: "When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet. His breathtaking poem "Imagine" and Lauren Castillo's evocative illustrations will speak to every reader and dreamer searching for this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH HERGerber, Dan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sumac Press 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 811 GERCrane, Hart
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 CRASeese, Ethel Gray
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encore Performance Pub. 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 811.54 SEEBolin, Donald W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Private Printing 1991
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 811.54 BOLCooper, 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 Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COOGatwood, Olivia
Summary: One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Poetry/Exploding Pinecone Press 2017