Today my name is colorful. Yesterday my name was dead souls. Tomorrow my name will be lively spirits.
My friends think my name is fire. The police think my name is burden.
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My parents think my name is symphony. Secretly I know my name is anything I want it to be. To read the words of these young people is to hear the diverse voices of teenagers everywhere. Included are a forward by acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni, an essay from Kevin Powell, another poet associated with WritersCorps, and writing tips from WritersCorps instructors. Dive in, and happy hunting. Cruelties come not just from wicked stepmothers, but also from ourselves.
There are expectations, pressures, judgment, and criticism. But there are also friends, and sisters, and a whole hell of a lot of power there for the taking.
What It’s Like to Stand Inside a Poem
In fifty poems, Christine Heppermann confronts society head on. The poems range from contemporary retellings to first-person accounts set within the original tales, and from deadly funny to deadly serious. Complemented throughout with black-and-white photographs from up-and-coming artists, this is a stunning and sophisticated book to be treasured, shared, and paged through again and again.
Established and familiar names are joined by many new young voices, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos has written the Introduction.
The Poem That Won’t Leave You Alone, Volume 2
The poets collected here illuminate the difficulty of straddling cultures, languages, and identities. They celebrate food, family, love, and triumph. In English, Spanish, and poetic jumbles of both, they tell us who they are, where they are, and what their hopes are for the future. His talent was unbounded — a raw force that commanded attention and respect.
His death was tragic — a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable — as vibrant and alive today as it has ever been.
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Written in his own hand from the time he was nineteen, these seventy-two poems embrace his spirit, his energy — and his ultimate message of hope. In , the British parliament passed an Act making the trading and transportation of slaves illegal. This book brings together stories and poems which provide a first-hand account of the horrors of slavery, remembering the brutal and long-lasting inflictions which have shaped millions of lives. This collection of original stories and poems provides rare insight into the minds of adolescent African American boys.
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And Eric takes us on a tour of North Philly on the Fourth of July, when the heat could make a guy go crazy. From the border in the Dominican Republic, to the bustling streets of New York City, Acevedo considers how some bodies must walk through the world as beastly beings. How these forgotten myths be both blessing and birthright. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time.
Several metal chairs lined one side of the room, facing a wide screen on the opposite wall. Combing through the books, I found This Planet is Doomed , a collection of science fiction poetry by Sun Ra, the legendary Afrofuturist jazz musician and composer, bandleader, poet, philosopher, and and and. Because my dad is a jazz guy and I was a kid who identified as an alien, I was introduced to Sun Ra at a young age.
Even then, I recognized that Sun Ra was, if not the coolest person to have ever lived, definitely in the top five. His science fiction poetry seemed the perfect input for a spatially overwhelming poetry synthesizer. I picked two poems: The room went dark, Sun Ra spotlighted. I was briefly speechless, then noted that the whole thing was Incredibly Goth. They create a visual space out of that. I wondered, can you do that with a reading? Max and Oren used a speech-to-text API application programming interface from Google Cloud and hooked it up to EmoLex , a database compiled by computer scientist Saif Mohammad, that crowdsourced associations between words, emotions, and sentiments; this included color association.
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I think Frank would have gotten a kick out of it. It was an odd day in New York, humid and sad Anthony Bourdain died the morning I went to the project , and it was both surreal and beneficial to step away from the oppressive air and into this new atmosphere. Writer and editor Bourree Lam took a different route, and read a series of texts to her husband.
When are you coming home?