June Jordan's Poetry for the People

June Jordan's Poetry for the People PDF Author: Lauren Muller
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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This lively "blueprint" (guidebook) represents collaborative efforts of the Poetry for the People, 60 or more multicultural students under the leadership of June Jordan at the University of California, Berkeley. Describing how-tos of grassroots poetry programs and staunchly pledged to current politically correct tenets of diversity, in addition to printing student poems, this anthology reviews how to take readings and workshops into the community and cultivate "empowerment by affirming that everybody has something to offer." Chapters discuss these "cultural literacies": African American; Asian American; Caribbean; Chicana/o, Latina/o American; children's; deaf; gay and lesbian; Irish and Irish American; Native American; and women's. This celebration of "explorative" poetry as a communal, oral art form is an easy-to-use, timely reference for community college, public libraries, and writers' centers. Frank Allen, Northampton Community Coll., Tannersville, Pa. Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information.

June Jordan's Poetry for the People

June Jordan's Poetry for the People PDF Author: Lauren Muller
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Book Description
This lively "blueprint" (guidebook) represents collaborative efforts of the Poetry for the People, 60 or more multicultural students under the leadership of June Jordan at the University of California, Berkeley. Describing how-tos of grassroots poetry programs and staunchly pledged to current politically correct tenets of diversity, in addition to printing student poems, this anthology reviews how to take readings and workshops into the community and cultivate "empowerment by affirming that everybody has something to offer." Chapters discuss these "cultural literacies": African American; Asian American; Caribbean; Chicana/o, Latina/o American; children's; deaf; gay and lesbian; Irish and Irish American; Native American; and women's. This celebration of "explorative" poetry as a communal, oral art form is an easy-to-use, timely reference for community college, public libraries, and writers' centers. Frank Allen, Northampton Community Coll., Tannersville, Pa. Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information.

The Others

The Others PDF Author: Matthew Rohrer
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1940696623
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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A gripping, eerie, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes, we follow a midlevel publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters ghost stories, science fiction adventures, Victorian hashish eating, and robot bigfoots. Rohrer mesmerizes with wildly imaginative tales and resonant verse in this compelling love letter to storytelling. this night they all seemed asleep for a while the stark shadows held me only my mind moved wildly behind my eyes until I heard a tiny song coming from the driver song of a bandit’s broken heart, song of his betrayal I slept and dreamed I was awake Matthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.

Passion

Passion PDF Author: June Jordan
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619322420
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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After decades out of print, Passion—one of June Jordan’s most important collections—has returned to readers. Originally entitled, passion: new poems, 1977-1980, this volume holds key works including “Poem About My Rights,” “Poem About Police Violence,” “Free Flight,” and an essay by the poet, “For the Sake of the People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us.” June Jordan was a fierce advocate for the safety and humanity of women and Black people, and for the freedom of all people—and Barack Obama made a line from this book famous: “We are the ones we have been waiting for.” With love and humor, via lyrics and rants, she calls for nothing less than radical compassion. This new edition includes a foreword by Nicole Sealey.

Poems of Childhood

Poems of Childhood PDF Author: Eugene Field
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Directed by Desire

Directed by Desire PDF Author: June Jordan
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619320800
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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Affordable e-book of volume honored as one of Library Journal's "Poetry Books of the Year."

Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems

Always a Reckoning, and Other Poems PDF Author: Jimmy Carter
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 0812924347
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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A collection of poetry by the former president shares Carter's private meditations and memories about his youth, family, friends, and politics. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Comparative Religion

Comparative Religion PDF Author: Louis Henry Jordan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Beautiful & Pointless

Beautiful & Pointless PDF Author: David Orr
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062079417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.

My Letter to the World and Other Poems

My Letter to the World and Other Poems PDF Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1554531039
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Presents illustrated versions of well-known poems written by one of America's most renowned poets.

The Best Loved Poems of the American People

The Best Loved Poems of the American People PDF Author: Hazel Felleman
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0385000197
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 708

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Contains over 575 of the most frequently requested poems in America, divided by subject and indexed by authors and first lines.