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 […]
Tag Archives: Poetry
Review: Rapture: Poems – Sjohnna McCray
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 […]
Migritude by Shailja Patel
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. […]
Shel Silverstein: Poetry for Little Ears
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 […]
Love That Book Hate That Cat
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 […]
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver
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 […]
Review: Milk And Honey by Rupi Kaur
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 […]
Anyone want to read poetry? How about The Faerie Queene?
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: poetry and prose
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 Review of Above the Dreamless Dead by Various with a Note from the Editor
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 […]
The Book Wars 