salt. by Nayyirah Waheed
Kindle Edition, 259 pages Published October 17th 2013 by Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Source: Purchased I have had salt. on my to read list over at Goodreads for quite a […]
Kindle Edition, 259 pages Published October 17th 2013 by Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Source: Purchased I have had salt. on my to read list over at Goodreads for quite a […]
Paperback, 72 pages Published April 5th 2016 by Graywolf Press Source: Raincoast Books Sjohnna McCray’s father was an American soldier deployed to Korea where he met McCray’s Korean mother. In […]
Paperback, 153 pages Published November 30th 2010 by Kaya Press Source: Purchased From “The Making (Migrant Song):” We overdress, we migrants. We care too much how we look to you. […]
I had meant to write a post about Silverstein for our poetry month a while ago, but life (literally) got in the way. Silverstein, who had never meant to write children’s […]
Hate That Cat is a middle grade verse novel by Sharon Creech, and a sequel to Love That Dog. Jack is one grade older and has the same teacher as last year, Miss […]
Every morning crow steps along the beach as though he found the world brand-new, and wonderful, and, without a doubt, made especially for him. – from “Crow” Most […]
It took precisely two poems for Tumblr to convince me that Rupi Kaur’s milk and honey was a book I needed to read. There’s poetry that feels (to me) like it’s […]
Sometime last year I wrote in this blog that I wanted to read more poetry. I have also had in the back of my mind a latent determination to learn […]
My Name is Mina is David Almond’s prequel to his extraordinary Skellig, and is an equally extraordinary work in which poetry and prose become almost indistinguishable as Mina keeps a journal […]
A lot of people think ABOVE THE DREAMLESS DEAD was my idea–a natural assumption as it’s a pretty specifically focused book. It wasn’t my idea though–Calista Brill at First Second […]