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c2002., Adolescent, Dial Books Call No: Young adult FIC GRIMES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
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2003, c2002., General, Speak Call No: FIC GRI Availability:18 of 18 At Location(s) Summary Note: While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
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-- Slam poetryc2009., University of Michigan Press Call No: Poetry Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the cultural aspects of the poetry slam, including the relationships slam poets develop with their audiences through race and identity performance, focusing particularly on African American poets.
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2024., Adolescent, Wednesday Books Call No: REALISTIC F RAI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Eighteen-year-old Nida faces unexpected fame after her critical poem about a politician goes viral and wins a contest she never entered, which leaves Nida unable to write poetry as she struggles with her family's expectations and questions her own desires.
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c2021., Nimbus Publishing Limited Call No: 811.5 JOE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "One of Rita Joe's most influential poems, "I Lost My Talk" tells the revered Mi'kmaw Elder's childhood story of losing her language while a resident of the residential school in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. An often quoted piece in this era of truth and reconciliation, Joe's powerful words explore and celebrate the survival of Mi'kmaw culture and language despite its attempted eradication. A companion book to the simultaneously published I'm Finding My Talk by Rebecca Thomas, I Lost My Talk is a necessary reminder of a dark chapter in Canada's history, a powerful reading experience, and an effective teaching tool for young readers of all cultures and backgrounds. Includes a biography of Rita Joe and striking colour illustrations by Mi'kmaw artist Pauline Young."--
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2016, Talonbooks Call No: NL 811 ABE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Award-winning Nisga'a poet Jordan Abel's third collection, Injun, is a long poem about racism and the representation of Indigenous peoples. Composed of text found in western novels published between 1840 and 1950 - the heyday of pulp publishing and a period of unfettered colonialism in North America - Injun then uses erasure, pastiche, and a focused poetics to create a visually striking response to the western genre. After compiling the online text of 91 of these now public-domain novels into one gargantuan document, Abel used his word processor's 'Find' function to search for the word 'injun.' The 509 results were used as a study in context: How was this word deployed? What surrounded it? What was left over once that word was removed? Abel then cut up the sentences into clusters of three to five words and rearranged them into the long poem that is Injun. The book contains the poem as well as peripheral material that will help the reader to replicate, intuitively, some of the conceptual processes that went into composing the poem. Though it has been phased out of use in our 'post-racial' society, the word 'injun' is peppered throughout pulp western novels. Injun retraces, defaces, and effaces the use of this word as a colonial and racial marker. While the subject matter of the source text is clearly problematic, the textual explorations inInjun help to destabilize the colonial image of the 'Indian' in the source novels, the western genre as a whole, and the western canon"--Provided by publisher.
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[2023]., Primary, Random House Studio Call No: 811 .54 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Features the poem, "Remember," by U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo that encourages young readers to reflect on family, nature, and their heritage. Includes color illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade.
