poetry

"On January 6, 2021, at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in America, while the U.S. Capitol is under attack, Nicholas Montemarano drives six hundred miles to see his mother, who is hospitalized with COVID pneumonia and in a critical state. For ten days he lives in a hotel minutes from the hospital, alternating between hope and helplessness. This is the story of those ten days"--Provided by publisher.

Contains poems about the bad habits, anxieties, and other fears and foibles of monsters, including selections about Frankenstein's wedding.

A narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game.

Light-hearted illustrations accompany this version of the familiar nursery rhyme about an old woman and her playful dog.

"[The author] narrates Henry Brown's story of how he came to ship himself in a box from slavery to freedom. Told in stanzas of six lines each, each line representing one side of a box, and augmented with historical records and excerpts from Henry Brown's own writing"--Provided by publisher.

"Clint Smith's . . . collection traverses the . . . emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a collection of poems by performance poet Sophia Thakur in which she explores what it means to be a woman in today's society through topics such as identity, relationships, self-love, and more.

"A celebration of the meaning of Blackness"--Provided by publisher.

A treasury of sixteen poems highlights the jobs and personalities of an assortment of vehicles from an ambulance to a snowplow.