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• Bright Before Us Like a Flame

  Igniting a New Generation of Writers

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  An anthology celebrating youth-led storytelling that collects entries from a decade of work by Shout Mouse Press in coaching "young people to write and publish diverse and inclusive books." This volume is organized into four thematic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Knucklehead

  Poems

  Keith, Tony, Jr.,

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  While society often assigns the label 'knucklehead' to kids with attitude problems, this . . . poetry collection by spoken word poet and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. subverts that narrow way of thinking and empathizes with young people who are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Girl You Are Atlas

  Watson, Renée,

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  Poet Renée Watson looks back at her childhood and urges readers to look forward at their futures with love, understanding, and celebration in this fully illustrated poetry collection.

• Far Country

  Poems

  Bello, Avtar Kyce, 1981-

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  In Far Country, Kyce Bello documents an unmapped territory in which loss becomes a medium for deepening connection and love. In poems firmly rooted in the Southwestern bioregion, landscape and language are layered into vivid sequences where the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grace Notes

  Poems About Families

  Nye, Naomi Shihab,

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  A collection of poems about family and the love we share with one another throughout life's peaks and valleys. In one hundred and seventeen deeply personal poems, beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye invites readers into the house, into the family, into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How the Boogeyman Became a Poet

  Keith, Tony., Jr.,

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  In this powerful YA memoir, the poet, writer and hip-hop educator traces his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, homophobia and his own personal Boogeyman to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Poemhood, Our Black Revival

  History, Folklore & the Black Experience: a Young Adult Poetry Anthology

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  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.

• The Unboxing of a Black Girl

  Shanté, Angela,

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  Set in New York City in the '90s, Angela Shanté's poems and stories paint a mosaic of childhood that is shaped by the past and reverberates into the present. As Shanté navigates the city through memory, this timeless book illuminates the places…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dark Testament

  Blackout Poems

  Smith, Crystal Simone,

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  With poems found within the text of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo, Crystal Simone Smith embarks on an uncompromising exploration of collective mourning and crafts a masterwork that resonates far beyond the page. These poems are visually…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wearing My Mother's Heart

  Thakur, Sophia,

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  Taking readers on an emotionally charged journey through the lives of women in the past and considering what it means to be a woman today, this powerful new poetry collection touches upon topics such as identity, race, politics, mental health and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Abuela, Don't Forget Me

  Ogle, Rex,

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  Rex Ogle's companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother's legacy. In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ain't Burned All the Bright

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  Jason Reynolds, using three longggggggg sentences, and Jason Griffin, using three hundred pages of a pocket-size moleskine, have mind-melded this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And We Rise

  the Civil Rights Movement in Poems

  Martin, Erica (Halcyenda Erica),

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  A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Augusta Savage

  the Shape of a Sculptor's Life

  Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-

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  A powerful biography in poems about Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

• Carver

  a Life in Poems

  Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-

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  George Washington Carver was determined to help the people he loved. Born enslaved 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clap When You Land

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  Sixteen-year-olds Camino Rios, of the Dominican Republic, and Yahaira Rios, of New York City, are devastated to learn of their father's death in a plane crash and stunned to learn of each other's existence. A novel in verse told in two voices.

• Ethel's Song

  Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems

  Krasner, Barbara,

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  The child of Jewish immigrants, Ethel Greenglass grows up on New York City's Lower East Side; she dreams of being an actress and a singer but finds romance and excitement in the arms of the charming Julius Rosenberg. Both are ardent supporters of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Inheritance

  a Visual Poem

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belprae-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.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ordinary Hazards

  a Memoir

  Grimes, Nikki,

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  Nikki Grimes discovered the power of writing at the tender age of six, when, alone in her room, she poured her fears, anger, and tears onto a piece of paper - and felt sweet relief. Words and faith were her most enduring companions as life flung her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Respect the Mic

  Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry From a Chicagoland High School

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  Curated by award-winning and best-selling poets, this wide-ranging poetry anthology represents twenty years of poetry from the students and alumni of Chicago's Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club.