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Time you let me in : 25 poets under 25
A collection of poems from 25 poets under the age of 25.
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Young Adult Poetry
Reviews This unique guide suggests useful titles for a collection of poetry anthologies, and also provides subject information for their contents. Primarily designed for adults, it can also be used by interested students, if their libraries include many of the titles indexed. Definitely recommended for Christian school as well as public libraries. Christian Library Journal [A] valuable reference tool for both teachers and librarians. VOYA
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Walking on the boundaries of change : poems of transition
Poems for young adults, 11 and older, who are going through changes and looking for answers.
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PBS NewsHour. Poet's novel turns young sports lovers into book lovers
How do you get reluctant readers to fall in love with a book? Writer and literacy activist Kwame Alexander says you have to offer them something relatable. In \"The Crossover,\" basketball is the hook to persuade kids to pick up a novel written in poetic verse. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Alexander to discuss his award-winning young adult book.
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Here in Harlem : poems in many voices
Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more. Exhilarating and electric, these poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a people.
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Speaking Truths
The twenty-first century is already riddled with protests demanding social justice, and in every instance, young people are leading the charge. But in addition to protesters who take to the streets with handmade placards are young adults who engage in less obvious change-making tactics. In Speaking Truths, sociologist Valerie Chepp goes behind-the-scenes to uncover how spoken word poetry-and young people's participation in it-contributes to a broader understanding of contemporary social justice activism, including this generation's attention to the political importance of identity, well-being, and love. Drawing upon detailed observations and in-depth interviews, Chepp tells the story of a diverse group of young adults from Washington, D.C. who use spoken word to create a more just and equitable world. Outlining the contours of this approach, she interrogates spoken word activism's emphasis on personal storytelling and \"truth,\" the strategic uses of aesthetics and emotions to politically engage across difference, and the significance of healing in sustainable movements for change. Weaving together their poetry and personally told stories, Chepp shows how poets tap into the beautiful, emotional, personal, and therapeutic features of spoken word to empathically connect with others, advance intersectional and systemic analyses of inequality, and make social justice messages relatable across a diverse public. By creating allies and forging connections based on friendship, professional commitments, lived experiences, emotions, artistic kinship, and political views, this activist approach is highly integrated into the everyday lives of its practitioners, online and face-to-face. Chepp argues that spoken word activism is a product of, and a call to action against, the neoliberal era in which poets have come of age, characterized by widening structural inequalities and increasing economic and social vulnerability. She illustrates how this deeply personal and intimate activist approach borrows from, builds upon, and diverges from previous social movement paradigms. Spotlighting the complexity and mutual influence of modern-day activism and the world in which it unfolds, Speaking Truths contributes to our understanding of contemporary social change-making and how neoliberalism has shaped this political generation's experiences with social injustice.
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Respect the mic : celebrating 20 years of poetry from a Chicagoland High School
This vivid collection of poetry and prose -- curated by award-winning and bestselling poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Peter Kahn, and Dan \"Sully\" Sullivan -- illuminates just that, uplifting the incredible legacy this community has cultivated. Among the dozens of current students and alumni, Respect the Mic features work by NBA champion Iman Shumpert, National Youth Poet Laureate Kara Jackson, National Youth Poet Laureate Kara Jackson, National Student Poet Natalie Richardson, comedian Langston Kerman, and more.
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Freud in Oz
Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers. Freud in Oz suggests that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged debt to books ostensibly written for children. Kenneth B. Kidd argues that children’s literature and psychoanalysis have influenced and interacted with each other since Freud published his first case studies.
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Fortune's bones : the manumission requiem
A poem commemorating the life of the slave Fortune, whose skeleton was in the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut and in the town for over 200 years before community members decided to find out what they could about it.
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Course Design as Critical Creativity: Intersectional, Regional, and Demographic Approaches to Teaching Asian American Literatures
[...]even as I imagine an Asian American student as an enrollee and audience (yes, Asian Americans exist in the middle of the country!), I design the course with non-Asian American and mostly white students in mind. A young adult (YA) graphic novel focused on LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and related identities) youth suicide prevention (Flamer by Mike Curato) or a poetry collection about mothering, the physical environment, and animals (Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil), while authored by and featuring Asian Americans, may not readily prompt readers to categorize such texts as Asian American literature because they do not foreground race; however, such deviance from what should constitute \"Asian American\" is exactly what enables us to render Asian American subjectivity complexly Describing my curatorial practice as \"queer\" emphasizes the performative sense of \"queer,\" as \"a doing\" (rather than as \"a being\") oriented to nonnormative sensibilities, rather than simply an identity position. [...]because dominant cultural representations of Asian America are often flat and stereotypical, realist depictions of Asian American life in all their complexity as well as their mundaneness by Asian American writers can serve as a powerful antidote for readers, especially those of Asian descent who rarely get to see themselves justly represented.4 To interrupt the impulse to read and interpret Asian American literatures as purely sociohistorical truths, I teach a variety of genres (short story, novel, drama, poetry, memoir, graphic novel, YA novel) and multiple texts from the same ethnic group, refrain from over-contextualizing social history, and focus on literary interpretation. Butler concedes that \"critique is always a critique i/some instituted practice, discourse, episteme, institution, and it loses its character the moment in which it is abstracted from its operation and made to stand alone as a purely generalizable practice,\" thus emphasizing the contingent and relational nature of critique (212; original emphasis).5 They go on to emphasize that critique for Foucault ultimately is about self-fashioning, wherein a \"subject is both crafted and crafting\" in a field of power (225).
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