Peters, Lisa Westberg

Summary: "If you're a curious child and you get a new dog, you discover all kinds of things. Gravity has new meaning, when you're racing down a slide toward your eager-beaver dog waiting at the bottom (uh-oh!). Friction has a new meaning, when your slippery dog escapes from the bath (soap+fingers=not enough friction). But love has a new meaning too, when you and your cosmic dog become the center of your...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, and imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 PET

Acevedo, Elizabeth

Summary: "In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-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. Paired with full-color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins in a format that will appeal to fans of Mahogany L. Browne's Black Girl Magic or Jason...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 ACE

Thakur, 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 THA

Ruddock, Nicholas

Summary: "Would you help a tiny fragile snake? Fifteen poems explore close encounters with animals ... and choosing to respond tenderly. Whether it's helping a hummingbird escape, respecting a bear's habitat, admiring a heron's beauty, or giving way to ants at a picnic, the human response in these poems is to do no harm, and to help whenever possible. The poems follow a seasonal progression, ending with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 RUD

Emezi, Akwaeke

Summary: "Collection of poems by Akwaeke Emezi"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 EME

Hood, Susan

Summary: "An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust-from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARS

Marie, Aurielle

Summary: "Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie's stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 MAR

Summary: Mexican Poetry has flourished during the last thirty years, and this ambitious multi-lingual anthology surveys the vibrant and eclectic work of poets born after 1950. The poetry of this new generation reflects a wealth of backgrounds, regions, styles, and especially influences -- including traditional and inventive narrative, formalism, lyrics, suites, and experimental verse. This is also the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 REV

El-Kurd, Mohammed

Summary: Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa -- she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa's exile from Haifa to his family's current...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 EL-K

Gibson, Andrea

Summary: A queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Button Publishing Inc. 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 GIB

VanDerwater, Amy Ludwig

Summary: "Fascinating information about the animals (yes, sea otters have pockets!) tucked into short, lively poems and bright, bold artwork make this collection perfect for National Poetry Month--or any day of the year. In honor of Poem in Your Pocket Day, a child imagines the poems animals might carry in their pockets, if they had pockets. What would a hummingbird write? A fox? A sea otter? These...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 VAN