Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 POESummary: In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, and Nikki Giovanni, This Is the Honey is a rich and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 THICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 811 THILong, Rachel
Summary: "Each poem in Rachel Long's award-winning My Darling from the Lions has a vivid story to tell-of family quirks, the perils of dating, the grip of religion, or sexual awakening-stories that are, by turn, emotionally insightful, politically conscious, wise,funny, and outrageous. Told in three sections, it's a book about growing up, falling in love with not-great men, and girlhood; a collection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2021