poets

Text and illustrations present twenty poems that look at well-known poets from around the world.

A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.

"Soma Kear's verses have gone viral. Trouble is, she didn't exactly think her slam poetry video through. All she knew was that her rhymes were urgent. On fire. An expression of where she was, and that place . . . was a hot mess. Following her Ba's deportation back to Cambodia, everything's changed. Her Ma is away trying to help Ba adjust to his new life, and her older sister has taken charge with a new authoritarian tone. Meanwhile, Soma's trending video pushes her to ask if it's time to level up. With her school's spoken word contest looming, Soma must decide: Is she brave enough to put herself out there? To publicly reveal her fears of Ba not returning? To admit that things may never be the same? With every line she spits, Soma searches for a way to make sense of the world around her"--Provided by publisher.

Offers a biography in verse of Nicaraguan poet Rube?n Dari?o. Begins with Dari?o's childhood, growing up listening to the exaggerated tales of his uncle and working forward in his life to when he became an adventurer in Central and South America and discovered his love of poetry.

A young Latinx poet grappling with loneliness and heartache decides one day to bring Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla back to life. The seance kicks off an uncanny trip narrated by a Greek chorus of gossiping spirits as she journeys through a dead celebrity prom, encounters her shadow self, and performs karaoke in hell. In poems embodying millennial angst, paragraph-long conversations overheard at her local coffee shop, and unhinged Twitter rants, the poet reveals an eerie, sometimes gruesome, yet still moving love story. --.

A brief biography of Amanda Gorman, America's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate.

A lyrical biography of the world's third bestselling poet of all time reveals a child immigrant from Lebanon, with a secret hope, who used poetry to bring people together.

A lyrical biography of the world's third bestselling poet of all time reveals a child immigrant from Lebanon, with a secret hope, who used poetry to bring people together.

Challenged to write a poem about a historical whaler her Cape Cod community reveres, a creative girl discovers the poetry journal of a 19th-century woman who shared a romance with a mysterious sea captain.

In an alternate world where industrialization has caused many species of carbon-eating dragons to thrive, Owen, a slayer being trained by his famous father and aunt, and Siobahn, his bard, face a dragon infestation near their small town in Canada.