Brave New Voices

Brave New Voices PDF Author: Jen Weiss
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Book Description
Utilizing student examples from their spoken word poetry workshops, Weiss and Herndon present their methods and outline a practical five-week course that fosters poetic awareness.

Brave New Voices

Brave New Voices PDF Author: Jen Weiss
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Book Description
Utilizing student examples from their spoken word poetry workshops, Weiss and Herndon present their methods and outline a practical five-week course that fosters poetic awareness.

The Type

The Type PDF Author: Sarah Kay
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0316386618
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 51

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Book Description
Sarah Kay's powerful spoken word poetry performances have gone viral, with more than 10 million online views and thousands more in global live audiences. In her second single-poem volume, Kay takes readers along a lyrical road toward empowerment, exploring the promise and complicated reality of being a woman. During her spoken word poetry performances, audiences around the world have responded strongly to Sarah Kay's poem The Type. As Kay wrote in The Huffington Post: "Much media attention has been paid to what it means to 'be a woman,' but often the conversation focuses on what it means to be a woman in relation to others. I believe these relationships are important. I also think it is possible to define ourselves solely as individuals... We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices." Never-before-published in book form, The Type is illustrated throughout and perfect for gift-giving.

Never Catch Me

Never Catch Me PDF Author: Darius Simpson
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1638340552
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Book Description
2023 Midwest Book Award Winner 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist Darius Simpson’s debut collection Never Catch Me centers on Black boyhood in the midwest and familial disintegration over time. Simpson pulls back the curtain, exposing the violence enacted against and upon, Black bodies, and yet, still, each poem is saturated in revolution and hope. Never Catch Me is the anthem necessary to organize a community that is committed to a better right now–one that can only be achieved with an intensity and action that goes far beyond the page.

Black Movie

Black Movie PDF Author: Danez\ Smith
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1943735093
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Book Description
2014 Button Poetry Prize Winner "These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make 'a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot is the wide mouth of a pistol.' That's no spoiler alert, but rather, Smith's way–saying & laying it beautifully bare. A way of desensitizing the reader from his own defenses each time this long, black movie repeats."–Marcus Wicker "Danez Smith's BLACK MOVIE is a cinematic tour-de-force that lets poetry vie with film for the honor of which medium can most effectively articulate the experience of Black America."–Rain Taxi

New American Best Friend

New American Best Friend PDF Author: Olivia Gatwood
Publisher: Button Poetry
ISBN: 194373514X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Book Description
2017 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Runner-Up One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a series of odes: odes to the body, to tough women, to embracing your own journey in all its failures and triumphs.

The Crown Ain't Worth Much

The Crown Ain't Worth Much PDF Author: Hanif Abdurraqib
Publisher: Button Poetry
ISBN: 1943735239
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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Book Description
2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award - Poetry Honorable Mention 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award - Grand Prize Short List 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee The Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in the United States. A regular columnist for MTV.com, Abdurraqib brings his interest in pop culture to these poems, analyzing race, gender, family, and the love that finally holds us together even as it threatens to break us. Terrance Hayes writes that Abdurraqib "bridges the bravado and bling of praise with the blood and tears of elegy." The poems in this collection are challenging and accessible at once, as they seek to render real human voices in moments of tragedy and celebration.

A Socially Acceptable Breakdown

A Socially Acceptable Breakdown PDF Author: Patrick Roche
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 163834017X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 101

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Book Description
2022 Eric Hoffer Awards - Poetry Finalist A poetry collection pulling from the author's personal narrative to take the reader on a journey through family, mental health, grief, pop culture, body image, queer identity, love, joy, memory, myth, and magic. The collection follows a trajectory of 1) exploring identity, avoidance, escapism, and shame, then 2) facing and confronting fears, shame, grief, and self-image, and finally 3) breaking down stigma, searching for joy, finding self-acceptance, and the value of storytelling and sharing as a tool to connect, love, and choose progress.

My Blood Is Beautiful

My Blood Is Beautiful PDF Author: Mercedez Holtry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692546536
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Book Description
Mercedez Holtry is a slam poet, writer, student, mentor, and Chicana feminist who focuses on bringing out her roots, experiences and lessons learned through her poetry in hopes that they embrace her people and other artists around her. She has represented ABQ on multiple final and semifinal stages for national poetry events. Mercedez is passionate about spoken word and aspires to continually learn all she can about her art through working and slamming for her community.

Afterwards

Afterwards PDF Author: Reagan Myers
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1638340153
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Book Description
Afterwards is a book about the things that come after trauma. It encompasses the different kinds of grief— primarily the loss of a friend to suicide, but also the loss of an important relationship, and dealing with some loss related to family. There are frank discussions of mental illness and the spectrum of emotions that come with moving forward.

Not A Lot of Reasons to Sing, but Enough

Not A Lot of Reasons to Sing, but Enough PDF Author: Kyle Tran Myhre
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1638340102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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OF WHAT FUTURE ARE THESE THE WILD, EARLY DAYS? An exploration of the role that artists play in resisting authoritarianism with a sci-fi twist. In poetry, dialogue and visual art the book follows two wandering poets as they make their way from village to village, across a prison colony moon full of exiled rebels, robots, and storytellers. Part post-apocalyptic road journal, part alternate universe history of Hip Hop, and part “Letters to a Young Poet”-style toolkit for emerging poets and aspiring movement-builders, it's also a one-of-a-kind practitioners' take on poetry, power, and possibility. NOT A LOT OF REASONS TO SING is a: -post-apocalyptic road journal -alternate universe history of Hip Hop -“Letters to a Young Poet” -toolkit for emerging poets and aspiring movement-builders it's also a one-of-a-kind practitioners' take on poetry, power, and possibility.