Ewing, 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 EWISummary: 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 East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J808.1 KWASmith, Tracy K.
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, using her signature voice--inquisitive, lyrical and wry--mulls over what it means to be a citizen, a mother and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men and violence, boldly tying America's modern moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 SMIOlds, Sharon
Summary: "Following the Pulitzer prize-winning collection Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds gives us a stunning book of odes. Opening with the powerful and tender "Ode to the Hymen," Olds addresses and embodies, in this age-old poetic form, many aspects of love and gender and sexual politics in a collection that is centered on the body and its structures and pleasures. The poems extend parts of her narrative as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 OLDThakur, Sophia
Summary: "In her publishing debut, internationally acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur takes you on an intimate journey through love, loss, sacrifice, and self-discovery. In four parts -- titled Grow, Wait, Break, and Grow Again -- she shares her raw self and gives voice to experiences that connect people, inspiring readers to explore the tendencies of the heart." -- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 THALimón, 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 LIMRyan, 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 RYAPollitt, 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 POLBirdsong, Destiny O.
Summary: "What makes a self? In her remarkable debut collection of poems, Destiny O. Birdsong writes fearlessly towards this question. Laced with ratchetry, yet hungering for its own respectability, Negotiations is about what it means to live in this America, about Cardi B and top-tier journal publications, about autoimmune disease and the speaker's intense hunger for her own body-a surprise of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BIRHarris, Chris
Summary: "An illustrated collection of comically irreverent rhyming poems for readers of all ages, ranging in topic from avocados and anacondas to zombies and zebras (dressed like ghosts)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Word HarrisSummary: This anthology features poems by Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Donald Hall, Marie Howe, Naomi Shihab Nye and many others. These poets, from all walks of life, and from all over America, prove to us the possibility of creating in our lives what Dr. Martin Luther King called the "beloved community," a place where we see each other as the neighbors we already are. Healing the Divide urges us, at this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Writers Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.008 HEAXie, Jenny
Summary: "Jenny Xie's award-winning debut, Eye Level, takes us far and near, to Phnom Penh, Corfu, Hanoi, New York, and elsewhere, as we travel closer and closer to the acutely felt solitude that centers this searching, moving collection. Animated by a restless inner questioning, these poems meditate on the forces that moor the self and set it in motion, from immigration to travel to estranging losses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 XIELimón, Ada
Summary: ""Bright Dead Things" examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately disorderly, and marvelous, and ours"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 LIMLatham, Irene/ Waters, Charles/ Lp̤ez, Merc (̈ILT)
Summary: Twenty poets each share a poem about a mistake they made as a young person and also provide a short statement on what they learned from it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: From the Publisher: In a career that has earned her accolades, honorary degrees, and awards from both fellow poets and everyday poetry lovers, Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, inform and inspire. Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always beautiful, her poems move readers of all hues and generations. With Bicycles, she's collected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GIOSummary: 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' 2017Summary: 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 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' 2016Summary: 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' 2015Summary: 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: 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