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African American poets African American poets Biography African American poets Biography Juvenile literature Brooks, Gwendolyn 1917-2000 Hughes, Langston 1902-1967 Poets, American Poets, American 20th century Biography Poets, American 20th century Biography Juvenile literature United States Women poets, American 20th century BiographyHarjo, Joy
Summary: In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.9 HARHarjo, Joy
Summary: "Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her 'poet-warrior' road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 HARJO, JOY HARGallagher, Brigid.
Summary: A biography on Langston Hughes, the American poet and playwright.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HUGBryant, Jennifer.
Summary: From the Publisher: A Junior Library Guild Selection. Willie loved to write-words gave him freedom and peace. But he also knew that he needed to earn a living, so when he grew up he went off to medical school and became a doctor-one of the busiest men in town! Yet he never stopped writing. In this picture book biography of poet William Carlos Williams, Jen Bryant's engaging prose and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Poetry BryantPrendergast, Catherine
Summary: "Nora May French and Carrie Sterling arrive at Carmel-by-the-Sea at the turn of the 20th century with dramatically different ambitions. Nora, a stunning, brilliant, impulsive writer in her early twenties, seeks artistic recognition and bohemian refuge among the most celebrated counter-culturalists of the era. Carrie, long-suffering wife of the poet George Sterling, wants the opposite: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PREBaram, Marcus
Summary: In this biography, Marcus Baram--an acquaintance of Gil Scott-Heron's--will trace the volatile journey of a troubled musical genius. Baram will chart Scott-Heron's musical odyssey, from Chicago to Tennessee to New York: a drug addict's twisted path to redemption and enduring fame. In Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man, Marcus Baram puts the complicated icon into full focus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCOTT-HERON, GIL BARMerrell, Billy
Summary: "Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and was raised by his grandmother, who told him many stories of the Black American experience and taught him to be proud of his race from a young age. With her guidance, Langston became a talented writer in high school, creating dramatic plays, poetry, and articles for the school paper. His career as a writer would continue to blossom. Langston...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HUGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HUGSlade, Suzanne
Summary: Introduces the life and work of Gwendolyn Brooks, from her early love of poetry and her first published poems as a girl in Chicago through her financial struggles as an adult during the Depression to winning the Pulitzer Prize for her second book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BROSummary: This comprehensive guide to modern poetry in English covers 1,500 poets, including poets from Britain, America, New Zealand, Trinidad, and Zimbabwe. Many of the contributors are themselves celebrated poets, including Tom Paulin and Seamus Heaney.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821 OXFSummary: "The Kresge Eminent Artist Award honors an exceptional artist in the visual, performing or literary arts for lifelong professional achievements and contributions to metropolitan Detroit's cultural community. Gloria House is the 2019 Kresge Eminent Artist. This monograph celebrates her life and work." -- Title page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kresge Foundation 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOUSE, GLORIA LIFJackson, Angela
Summary: Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century, a protégé of Langston Hughes and mentor to a generation of poets, including Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, and Elizabeth Alexander. Her poetry took inspiration from the complex portraits of black American life she observed growing up on Chicago's South Side, a world of kitchenette...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROOKS, GWENDOLYN JACScott-Heron, Gil
Summary: A personal account by the late musician and poet traces the story of his life, career, and history-making 1981 tour at the side of Stevie Wonder to raise support for the establishment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCOTT-HERON, GIL SCODe Veaux, Alexis
Summary: "During her lifetime, Audre Lorde (1934-1992) created a mythic identity for herself that retains its vitality to this day. Alexis De Veaux demystifies Lorde's iconic status, charting her childhood in Harlem in the conservative household of Caribbean-immigrant parents; her early marriage to a white, gay man with whom she had two children; her emergence as an outspoken, black, feminist, lesbian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LORDE, AUDRE DEVDoty, Mark.
Summary: When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnourished and in need of loving care. Beau joins Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family. As Beau bounds back into life, the two dogs become Mark Doty's intimate companions, his solace, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 811.54 DOTFarkas, J. M.
Summary: "A lyrical picture book biography about American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's childhood and the two sisters who inspired her Good things come in threes, like peas like wishes like sisters. Vincent-American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay-began writing andpublishing poetry as a child. She grew up in coastal Maine with her two sisters and plenty of books, music, and nature, but often without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MILSummary: Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, high school student Jim Carroll seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach, his mom, and school seem to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BASSmith, Patti
Summary: In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, PATTI SMIHasselstrom, Linda M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 HasseGiorno, John
Summary: "Memoir of the poet and performance artist John Giorno"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GIORNO, JOHN GIOKumin, Maxine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KUMEpstein, Daniel Mark.
Summary: Describes the life and work of an American woman whose love poetry transformed a generation of writers, drawing on letters, diaries, and journals to depict the world of a woman whose life was dedicated to art and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT EPSRoffman, Karin
Summary: "The first biography of an American master. The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery -- the winner of nearly every major American literary award -- reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters. Drawing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASHBERY, JOHN ROFFerlinghetti, Lawrence
Summary: "A novelistic memoir by famed poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERCrawford, Robert
Summary: "A biography of T. S. Eliot from his birth in St. Louis in 1888 to his publication of The Waste Land in 1922"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015