tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-265227032024-02-28T00:00:26.803-05:00Big Blue Marble BlogA neighborhood bookstore blog for Mt. Airy and beyond.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger456125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-22694488197391397752017-07-16T22:27:00.001-04:002017-07-18T22:27:19.968-04:00Poetry Is Not a Luxury - Ada Limon, "Bright Dead Things"<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">A book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact—tracing in intimate detail the ways the speaker’s sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth, and falls in love. Ada Limón has often been a poet who wears her heart on her sleeve, but in these extraordinary poems that heart becomes a “huge beating genius machine” striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. “I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying,” the poet writes. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O’Hara, Sharon Olds, and Mark Doty, Limón’s work is consistently generous, accessible, and “effortlessly lyrical” (<i>New York Times</i>)—though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt, and lived.</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, and one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of the Year by <i style="color: black;">The New York Times</i><span style="color: black;">. Her other books include </span><i style="color: black;">Lucky Wreck</i><span style="color: black;">, </span><i style="color: black;">This Big Fake World</i><span style="color: black;">, and </span><i style="color: black;">Sharks in the Rivers</i><span style="color: black;">. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the 24Pearl Street online program for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer splitting her time between Lexington, Kentucky and Sonoma, California.</span></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2016-spring/selections/bright-dead-things-by-ada-limon-738439/" target="_blank">Kenyon Review Online review by Lisa Higgs</a>:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">The needs and wants expressed by Limón in the four sections that make up her National Book Award nominated collection are anything but simple. She wants to retain her sense of self as she moves into the “we” of an abiding relationship. She wants life and death reworked into some spirit of “solve-able absence.” She wants the entirety of her physical past and its erasure. She wants to be her “own personal map of America,” love and wreck and all. Most importantly, Limón—a confessed autobiographical poet (see her 2014 interview at the online journal </span><i style="border: 0px none; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Compose</i><span style="color: black; font-family: , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 16px;">)—wants readers to be intimately by her side, line after line. Reading this collection is like putting together each rung of a ladder that stretches toward the sky by sinking into its watery reflection.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-57131-471-0" target="_blank">Publishers Weekly review:</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;">Limón </span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;">goes into deep introspection mode in a fourth collection in which her speakers struggle with loss and alienation. As her poems move across varied geographies (New York, Kentucky, California), Limón narrates experiences in bewildering landscapes that should otherwise feel familiar. Perhaps feelings of alienatio</span>n result from intersections of identity; perhaps they are the cost of memory, a theme woven through each of the collection’s four sections.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.theliteraryreview.org/book-review/a-review-of-bright-dead-things-by-ada-limon/" target="_blank">The Literary Review, review by Timothy Lindner</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.96); color: #555555;">Every so often, I come across a poem that I share with </span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.96); box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555;">everyone, </i><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.96); color: #555555;">even those not familiar with contemporary poetry. “How to Triumph Like a Girl,” the opening poem in Ada Limón’s </span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.96); box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555;">Bright Dead Things, </i><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.96); color: #555555;">is one of those</span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.96); box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555;"> </i><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.96); color: #555555;">poems. Well, it </span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.96); box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555;">was</i><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.96); color: #555555;">—until I read “State Bird,” and “Miracle Fish,” and just about every piece in this collection. By the end of the first part I realized I might have been better off gifting the book to everyone for Christmas. Content is typically the driving force for my mass poem-picture-text messages, but I wanted people to hear this voice. It’s not one of a particular person, but of a consciousness. It’s the voice people ignore in the in-between moments of life that races through sensations, emotions, memories and predictions. Aptly fit into verse, all of these silenced flashes of human experience get their play time.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://losangelesreview.org/book-review-bright-dead-things-by-ada-limon/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.96); color: #555555;">The Los Angeles Review, review by </span><span style="color: black;">Brandon Amico</span></span></a></span></span><br />
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A brilliant new release! At 750 pages, <i>D.O.D.O.</i> is the longest book I've read in a long time. Initially daunted, I decided to poke my head in after reading the authors' collaboration statements:<br />
<blockquote>"...If the writers aren't in sync, it unravels pretty fast, but if they share a clear vision of the characters and the story -- as Nicki and I did in this case -- then it can come together with surprising ease and swiftness. Once we knew who these people were and what they were going to do, Nicki made a first pass over the opening phase of the book while I ran tech support, tracking the timeline on a spreadsheet and spewing out gobs of techno-gibberish when that was needed. Then she tossed that over to me and I did my bit while she forged ahead. I won't say it was easy but I will say the collaboration went very well, with a lot of humor and a minimum of drama." -NS</blockquote><blockquote>"This collaboration was great fun, in part because I got to witness Neal spew out gobs of techno-gibberish, which he does very elegantly. Sometimes I felt like Scout to his Atticus (if Atticus were a mad scientist). ... When we had differences of opinion -- which didn't happen much, given the scope of the book -- they were resolved, as Neal has said, with good humor and a minimum of drama. (Confession: I'm more dramatic than Neal.)" -NG</blockquote>Funny! So I read the first page, and then I jumped in and kept going. And it was totally worth it. I've since read it again. Read it, read it! It came out earlier this month, and it's a great take on historians, academics, time travel, magic, and shadowy government organizations.<br />
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<b><u>Will Grayson, Will Grayson</u> by John Green and David Levithan (Speak, $10.99)</b><br />
Collaboration can work in all sorts of ways, of course. <i>Will Grayson, Will Grayson</i> is one in which the two authors each take a character and write their characters' alternating chapters. Two characters, same name, different stories, different angst, and a late-night meeting by happenstance, with dramatic and ultimately healing effects.<br />
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<b><u>Sorcery and Cecelia, Or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot</u> by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer (Harcourt Brace and Company, $7.99)</b><br />
<i>Sorcery and Cecelia</i> is an epistolary comedy of manners set in Regency England -- well, alternate Regency England, with magic added. It came into being by way of the "letter game," in which two authors become their characters and write letters back and forth to each other in real time, creating and refining the story along the way.<br />
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<b><u>The Fall of the Kings</u> by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman (Bantam, $7.99)</b><br />
Hm. Oddly similar to <i>D.O.D.O.</i> in that it deals with the differing priorities of governance and scholarship, and it explores new ways of bringing history to life. Otherwise, it's rather different.<br />
A sequel of sorts to Ellen Kushner's <i>Swordspoint</i> (and, later, <i>The Privilege of the Sword</i>), this book began with the authors dividing up spheres of influence to focus their writing (the City vs the University), and then they began reworking each other's writing, and reworking the reworkings. 'It is a pretty long book, and I wish I could tell you who wrote what,' says Ellen Kushner. 'But true collaboration is a funny thing: as Neil Gaiman recently told an interviewer (re. his work with Terry Pratchett on <i>Good Omens</i>), “I wrote 90% of the book. The only problem was, [s]he wrote the other 90%.”'<br />
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"Kushner and Sherman don’t spin fables or knit fancies: they are world-forgers, working in a language of iron and air." —Gregory Maguire<br />
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<b><u>Welcome to Bordertown: New Stories and Poems of the Borderlands</u> edited by Holly Black and Ellen Kushner</b><br />
And, finally, here's a massive collaboration: five anthologies and three novels, set in a shared universe, with many recurring characters and many authors, some of whom started out as fans! Begun over thirty years ago, the Borderlands books were created and curated by Terri Windling and populated by an evolving community of authors, including at least three of the aforementioned collaborators. (Four, if you include Neil Gaiman.) They're not available at the Big Blue Marble, but they're worth trying to get your hands on. Here's what I said of <i>Welcome to Bordertown</i> after it came out in 2011:<br />
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In the ‘80s and ‘90s came a flood of books from the Borderlands, the newly created edge -- and its floodplain -- between our world and that of Faerie; a place where both magic and technology work ... sometimes. Basically, if you're gonna ride a motorcycle, you want to have some good spells on hand for when the engine cuts out on you. And vice versa. Bordertown is where runaways from both sides of the border go to start a new life. Now the birthplace of urban fantasy is back, and newbies are always welcomed...<br />
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<div align=right>Jennifer Sheffield, June 2017</div>Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837014618062351546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-8595041829175667172017-06-27T16:14:00.000-04:002017-07-03T18:09:32.382-04:00Harry Potter 20th Anniversary - What's your first Harry Potter memory?<h3>
<i>Harry Potter and Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone</i> was first published on June 26, 1997 - 20 years ago! Can you believe it?</h3>
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Big Blue Marble asked our staff and customers to share their first memories of reading Harry Potter and being seduced by J.K. Rowling's wizarding world. </h4>
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<i>If you'd like to share your memory, email us at outreach@bigbluemarblebooks.com and we'll post your entry here and in our newsletter.</i><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Deborah Zubow, West Philadelphia</b>: Drinking
butter beer at the release party for the second volume. Kids in
costume, fake owls hanging from the ceiling. First taste of pepper
jelly beans.</span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Kelly Kuwabara, Philadelphia</b>: I
remember once talking to a stranger on the (NYC) subway, a young man
who told me he had never had an interest in reading, but got completely
absorbed in the Harry Potter series.
He loved those books. He said that after that, he was a lot more
interested in books and reading, and expanded to other types of novels
and non-fiction. When we struck up our conversation, he was reading
<i>Notes of a Native Son.</i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Maisie Quinn, age 10, Philadelphia</b>: "My first memory of Harry Potter was when I was really little, like 3 or 4 or something, and I found my mom's old Prisoner of Azkaban book. I opened it up to the place where Hagrid just got the letter about Buckbeak saying Buckbeak would have to be in a hearing, and is hugging Harry and Ron and Hermione. Then I shut it again. I first started reading the books straight through in Kindergarten."</span></div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Katherine Knorr, South Philly</b>: Visiting the official Harry Potter bus with Elliott batTzedek! Also, I remember having to take the 3am train back to Philly from New York
and being salty about missing the earlier one. But then I noticed the
Hudson Books was still open and they were setting out copies of the
latest HP because it was now officially release day. I bought my copy
and sat around Penn Station reading until my train arrived.</span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><b>Douglas Gordon, Philadelphia</b>: My
primary memory of HP is also a regret: that I've always intended to
write a parody called "Larry Porter and the Crumpets of Doom" but have
never gotten around to it.</span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<b>Claire McGuire, Germantown/Philadelphi</b>a:<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"> <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">I
didn't learn about it til maybe early 1999. I was working as a nanny in
Seattle. My charge was a baby, but her older brother was 5, and his
mother was reading the first HP aloud to him. I remember that the mom
was excited because her son said, "I'd rather listen to Harry Potter than watch TV!" When they were done with the book, I borrowed it.</span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b>Nini Engel, Philadelphia</b>: We were living in England for two years, when HP5 <i>Order of the
Phoenix</i> came out. We had pre-ordered a copy, but there were five of us,
my husband and I, and our three daughters (14, 11 and 7. We spent the
entire day, into the night, taking turns reading it aloud to each other.
We got several hundred pages in before the youngest went to sleep and
the eldest ran off with the book. It was a magical experience, and
really, one of my happiest memories of their childhood. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b>Lorrie Kim, author of <i>Snape: A Definitive Reading</i>:</b> </span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">I was part of a Usenet discussion group fighting an appalling troll. We
were so tired of seeing her name that some people suggested we call her
"She Who Must Not Be Named." Others had to explain to me that this was a
reference to a popular children's series with an unspeakably loathsome
villain. I just now realized that this is my very own "Troll in the
dungeon!" story. <span class="_47e3 _5mfr" title="smile emoticon"><img alt="" class="img" height="16" role="presentation" src="https://www.facebook.com/images/emoji.php/v9/fa5/1.5/16/1f642.png" width="16" /><span class="_7oe">:-)</span></span> Little did I know
I would end up writing a book about this children's series. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Sheila Allen Avelin, Owner, Big Blue Marble Bookstore</b>: <span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;">I bought my first HP books in California because I happened to be there on the launch day of HP4 with Elizheva Hurvich </span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;">and we noticed this crazy long line of kids and were super-curious about what they were waiting to buy. I feel somewhat abashed that it took me so long to catch on, but I caught up quickly.</span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b>Elliott batTzedek, Event Coordinator, Big Blue Marble:</b> I first found Harry Potter when I started working at Children's Literacy Initiative. While we only did books for pre-k to 1st grade, HP was on the staff shelf and all the trainers, who had been elementary teachers, talked about it endlessly. I finally read HP1 and HP2, and, honestly, I wasn't completely enchanted. Fun, yes, but they also felt redundant. Something happens in summer, train to school, feast, things happen, Quidditch, Halloween, Christmas, things happen, more Quidditch, end of school year and dramatic things happen, tests, train home. But then HP3 came out and while the plot time line was the same for the first 3/4 of the book, the last 1/4 was amazing. Suddenly I cared passionately about Harry's parents and their few living friends, about the people who had fought evil and paid a huge price, and how that after effects of that fight was totally shaping these kids' world in ways they were only beginning to comprehend. After that it HP all the way, including the wonderful ritual of re-reading each book before the next one came out, and then going to the Midnight release. I only discovered the Jim Dale audio books when they came out in Digital format and now they are my constant go-to if I need background for doing cleaning or chores or awake at night and needing the familiar to help me get my brain to shut up and go back to sleep.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b>Mariangela Saavedra</b>: I was working at a daycare center in North Carolina in 2000 and a boy
there named Kyle was a 4th grader who I drove on my van from school to
the center every day after school was out. Because he was so tall (and
also well behaved) he was allowed to sit in the front seat. He had HP3, <i>The
Prisoner of Azkaban</i>, with him on day. It had just been released in
the fall (of 1999) and I had never heard of Harry Potter but he was glued to this book every day. So I asked what it was about<span class="text_exposed_show">.
Kyle absolutely lit up when he realized I had no idea about the story
and he would be able to tell me everything about it. Starting from the
very beginning every day on our 15 min ride from school to the center he
would tell me a little more, till one day we caught up to where he was
in the book. Everyday after that as he read more he would keep me
updated on the story till it was done. Not long after that the 1st movie
came out and to my excitement it was exactly as Kyle had described the
story to me. A book that could capture the attention of a 9 year old, whose details he could remember perfectly, even though he was now books ahead in the series? This was a book series I had to read for my self. I
read the first three in time for HP4 <i>The Goblet of Fire</i> US release and I
read every book from then on the weekend they came out. Engrossed by
every single one of them. I have loved many a book series in my life.
But none as much as I have loved every single book in the Harry Potter Series. I can read them over and over and never tire of them. When we
take family vacations we listen to the audiobooks narrated by Jim Dale. I
look forward to turning my niece and nephew on to them when they are
old enough to read them. It will be a magical time indeed!</span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b>Mary Gaia Prevost</b>: I had initially avoided reading the Harry Potter books due to the “frantic fan frenzy”, but then a friend of mine who
needed a distraction as her husband (who worked for the CIA) was going
on a dangerous mission overseas. So we went to see the first H.P.
movie…and I was HOOKED !!! I immediately went out and bought all the
H.P. books that were out (the first 4 books) and was even more amazed.
This was also the first time I had ever watched a movie before reading
the book AND the first time (after reading the book) that the movie had
captured the book almost perfectly. (P.S. the husband returned from the
mission safely) </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><b>Faith Paulsen, Norristown</b>: <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">I
remember I read a review somewhere and introduced sons #1 and #2 to
the first book which is all there was in the US at that time.So they
were in maybe 4th and 6th grades. My oldest was a big devoted reader
from early childhood and a big magic fan. My 2nd was more of an
outdoors kinda kid, totally opposite of his brother. Yet they both loved
the book! And we were hooked!</span></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"> <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><b>Dawn Vuckson, Minneapolis, MN</b>: When I saw the first movie, <i>Harry Potter </i><i><span role="presentation" style="color: #b73749; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold;"></span></i><i>and the Sorcerer's Stone</i>, I was completely mesmerized by the Wand Shop.
The shop and owner were exactly what my mind pictured when I read the
book. I've never had a movie match my imagination before.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><b>Jane Wiedmann, Philadelphia</b>: <span class="">HP5, "The </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Order
of the Phoenix," came out on my wedding day so part of our honeymoon was
spent reading it aloud to each other. We also gave it as our bridal
party gift.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><b>Ysabel Y. Gonzalez, Somerville, NJ</b>: <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Having a chance to see <i>Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone </i>while the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra played live at NJPAC.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><b>Christopher Schaeffer, Philadelphia</b>: <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">I remember resenting the first book because all of a sudden nobody wanted to talk about Redwall at recess anymore.</span></span> </span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><b>Tiara Richardson, former Big Blue Marble staffer</b>: <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">I
was grounded for a week in third or 4th grade. I read every book except
for the last one that week. I didn't read the final book until I was in
my twenties ...at which time I bought the Kazu Kibuishi edition from
Big Blue Marble. I was actually thinking of taking <i>Sorcerer's Stone</i> to
Jury Duty with me tomorrow</span></span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b>Tanya Kegler, NE Philadelphia:</b> I wanted to read the books, but all copies of the <i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Sorcerer's Stone</span></i>
were checked out at my local library. After several visits, I decided
to get the audio version for
my morning/evening commute (at the time I worked in NJ) but I was so
mesmerized by the story and the narrator that I started listening during
lunch and at bedtime. I finished the entire collection in a matter of
five days. HP books are still my all-time
favorite and in honor of the 20<sup>th</sup> Anniversary I plan on reading them with my daughter (who is also 20). #potterhead</div>
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<i>Bartram's Garden. </i>Eleanor will be joining us for the discussion!</span></h4>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">From <st1:country-region w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region>’s
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Bay</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">All
Saints</st1:placename> to <st1:city w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:city>, from <st1:state w:st="on">Florida</st1:state>’s brutal humidity to the drought-scorched <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Cape Verde</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Islands</st1:placetype></st1:place>, <i>Bartram’s Garden</i> takes in the
pulse and ache of the natural world: the bittern balanced in the swamp, cashew
fruit’s astringent flesh. With a gardener’s eye for color and motif, and a
mother’s open-hearted sensibility, these poems explore vivid landscapes both
intimate and foreign.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "georgia"; padding: 0in;">Eleanor Stanford is the author
of the</span> new book of poetry,<span class="apple-converted-space"> <span style="outline: 0px;"></span><i>Bartram's Garden</i></span> (Carnegie
Mellon University Press), a memoir,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">História, História: Two Years in the <st1:placename w:st="on">Cape Verde</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Islands</st1:placetype></span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Chicago</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>
for Literature and Photography) and of the poetry collection,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="outline: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Book of Sleep</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Carnegie).<span style="font-family: "georgia";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "georgia"; padding: 0in;">Her poems and essays have
appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review, The Georgia Review, The
Massachusetts Review, Brain, Child Magazine, and others. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">She is a 2014-2015 Fulbright
Fellow to </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: georgia;" w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region><span style="font-family: georgia;"> where she
is researching and writing about traditional midwifery in rural </span><st1:place style="font-family: georgia;" w:st="on">Bahia</st1:place><span style="font-family: georgia;">. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">She is the recipient of a Hadassah Brandeis grant and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia";"> was a Henry Hoyns fellow at the </span><st1:place style="font-family: Georgia;" w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Virginia</st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-family: "georgia";">,
where she earned her M.F.A. She lives in the </span><st1:city style="font-family: Georgia;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "georgia";"> area with her husband and three
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">All live wonders of the world--humans, plants and animals--are
citizens of meaning in these poems. Each poem is a tesseract which reveals the
intimate connections between things seemingly at great distance in time and
place."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><span style="color: #54001a; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Kazim Ali</span></div>
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"Sometimes we hurry to
grow up too soon, Rilke suggests in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> <span style="outline: 0px;"></span><i>Duino Elegies</i></span>, and so we may find
ourselves suddenly exiled from childhood as from a place we've called 'garden'
and have forever lost. Yet such a garden...might still exist if only we could
perfect a language to intuit it. Eleanor Stanford...gives us that language, by
turns synesthetic and elliptical, utterly transportive, reacquainting us with
the deep mystery of our lives lived in the womb of the world, attuning us to
its sweetnesses as well as its astringencies and to our great arduous task of
finding one within the other."</div>
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<span style="color: #54001a;">Gregory Djanikian</span></div>
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Flora,
fauna, the wild and the domestic, these poems sing gorgeously "with their
glowing throats / and feathered tongues."</div>
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<span style="color: #54001a;">Moira
Egan</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #282525;">As
luck and timing would have it, I come to Eleanor Stanford’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Bartram’s
Garden</em><span class="apple-converted-space"> just as a seemingly infinite number of Brood
XXIII cicadas have emerged from their hidey holes in western <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kentucky</st1:place></st1:state>. I can’t imagine a better book to
read to the accompaniment of the music of the spheres, as I keep calling the
rattling surround sound produced in the resonant abdomens of the male cicadas
clinging to the leaves of every tree, bush, and flower in our neighborhood. The
last time I heard it — exactly thirteen years ago, in accordance with the
periodicity of Brood XXIII — my children, who are now both almost out of the
teenage years, were the same age as Stanford’s young children. If the home is a
kind of garden, those are the years of near absolute retreat into its sanctuary. <a href="http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/review-bartrams-garden/" target="_blank">keep reading</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Late sown, they grow<br />
thrifty; in this narrow<br />
rowhouse kitchen,<br />
we set their two-pronged<br />
hearts in jars of water<br />
on the windowsill.<br />
We have little sun,<br />
less earth, and yet<br />
I want my sons to know<br />
that what feeds them<br />
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In candle-lit flickering, you trace<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
rib’s slope. Your bed<br />
of dark strata, each seam a deeper<br />
face. Not far from here, a town<br />
built on a mine caught fire<br />
fifty years ago and is still<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
burning. Beneath the overburden<br />
of those other lives—friable surface<br />
where residents of small hope<br />
and coal smoke make peanut butter<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
sandwiches or bicker, or sing<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
their coal-tinged lullabies—we move<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
in upcast shadow. Lampless<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
and luminous, breath crumbles again<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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declarative. Meaning,<br />
when you ask—our hands<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
conjugating each other<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
across the table—do you<br />
love me, what you are saying<br />
is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>you</em><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><em>love me</em>. Meaning,<br />
the basic unit can only be<br />
affirmative: the soft<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
gray rain fogging<br />
the windows. Palm<br />
on palm. Black coffee<br />
in a small tin cup.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-36425411712478799292017-05-16T15:48:00.001-04:002017-05-16T15:48:59.102-04:00Poetry is Not a Luxury: Alicia Ostriker, "Waiting for the Light"<h4>
Poetry is Not a Luxury Book Club May 2017</h4>
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<i>Waiting for the Light</i> by Alicia Ostriker</h4>
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“‘Let us now praise famous cities,’ says Alicia Ostriker in <i>Waiting for the Light.</i>
Indeed, let us now praise these poems, their ferocity, tenderness,
intelligence, compassion, and joy. A seeker and seer in the tradition of
Whitman, Ostriker searches for the ‘light that stabs me with joy’ amid
the sidewalks, schoolyards, marketplaces, and many tongues of her
beloved New York, spurred by ‘ancestors who remember tenements.’ A
walker in the city and a walker in the world, she knows about the flow
of dollars and blood through the streets, speaking fearlessly against
whoever crushes the body and the spirit. Wait for the light no longer;
the light is right here, in the pages of this book.”<br />
—Martín Espada</div>
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“Ostriker
so loves the world, its griefs, traumas, praises, mysteries, and joys,
that she teaches us to love the world with her—sometimes desperately,
heartbrokenly, never despairingly. Ostriker is an essential poet,
writing at the height of her powers.”<br />
—Daisy Fried</div>
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What is it like living today in the chaos of a city that is at once
brutal and beautiful, heir to immigrant ancestors "who supposed their
children's children would be rich and free?" What is it to live in the
chaos of a world driven by "intolerable, unquenchable human desire?" How
do we cope with all the wars? In the midst of the dark matter and dark
energy of the universe, do we know what train we're on? In this
cornucopia of a book, Ostriker finds herself immersed in phenomena
ranging from a first snowfall in New York City to the Tibetan diaspora,
asking questions that have no reply, writing poems in which "the arrow
may be blown off course by storm and returned by miracle."<br />
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<b>Alicia Suskin Ostriker</b> is a major American poet and critic. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including, most recently, <i>The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog; The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979–2011</i>; and<i> The Book of Seventy</i>,
winner of the National Jewish Book Award. She has received the Paterson
Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, the William
Carlos Williams Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National
Book Award, among other honors. Ostriker teaches in the low-residency
MFA program at Drew University and is currently a chancellor of the
Academy of American Poets.<br />
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Poems from <i>Waiting for the Light</i></h4>
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<a href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/waiting-light" target="_blank">Waiting for the Light </a></div>
<a href="http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1173-peaches" target="_blank">Peaches </a><br />
<a href="http://www.thespectrum.com/story/opinion/blogs/educationitself/2016/04/22/poem--day---utopian-alicia-ostriker/83174548/" target="_blank">Utopian </a><br />
<a href="https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/biking-george-washington-bridge" target="_blank"> Biking to the George Washington Bridge</a><br />
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Essays and Articles </h4>
Craft Talk: <a href="http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2010/03/alicia-ostriker.html" target="_blank">How a Poem Happens - Daffodils</a><br />
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Article: <a href="https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/spotlight_on_a_poem/alicia_ostriker_on_emily_dickins/" target="_blank">Alicia Ostriker on Emily Dickinson</a><br />
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Interview:<a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/feminism-spirituality-and-changing-mores-an-interview-with-alicia-ostriker/" target="_blank">Feminism, Spirituality, and Changing Mores: An Interview in Rain Taxi</a><br />
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Podcast: <a href="http://www.commonpodcast.com/home/2016/12/15/episode-14-alicia-ostriker" target="_blank">Commonplace: Conversations with Poets </a></div>
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<a href="https://www.drew.edu/news/2016/04/26/alicia-ostriker-on-the-history-of-poetry-in-the-city" target="_blank"> Alicia Ostriker on the History of Poetry in the City </a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-75252176639671745132017-05-14T11:30:00.000-04:002017-06-30T15:53:38.529-04:00Jen's Five Recommendations for Mother's Day, or for Activism AnytimeSome last-minute ideas for those who are celebrating. Also, a reminder, for those who celebrate Mother's Day and those who do not, that Mother's Day was conceived as a day of activism, <a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.07400300">back in 1870</a>, by Julia Ward Howe. "Arise, then, women of this day!"<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlB1JDG1hzHqIaIft_jfjspTN37P-zf6U0Ex2Xl03Cd0D8I7FfdBNa-LjCFTUp7jqmm0ViI6c1UqeQ9e-MI28_CrpCa-CtNcA9cMgdKqKo2TTU9jOcDQXD0VK36j8Wytq9i1R_/s1600/philatrees-cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlB1JDG1hzHqIaIft_jfjspTN37P-zf6U0Ex2Xl03Cd0D8I7FfdBNa-LjCFTUp7jqmm0ViI6c1UqeQ9e-MI28_CrpCa-CtNcA9cMgdKqKo2TTU9jOcDQXD0VK36j8Wytq9i1R_/s320/philatrees-cover.jpg" width="164" height="320" /></a></div><u>Philadelphia Trees: A Field Guide to the City and the Surrounding Delaware Valley</u> by Edward Barnard, Paul Meyer, and Catriona Briger (Columbia University Press, $19.95)<br />
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<u>Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World</u> by Srdja Popovic, with Matthew Miller <br />
(Spiegel & Grau, $16.00)<br />
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<u>Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions</u> by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<br />
(Knopf Publishing, $15.00)<br />
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<u>Why I March: Images from the Woman's March Around the World</u> (Abrams Books, $14.95)<br />
and <br />
<u>Why We March: Signs of Protest and Hope--Voices from the Women's March</u> (Artisan Publishers, $14.95)<br />
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<u>My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry</u> by Fredrik Backman, translation by Henning Koch (Washington Square Press, $16.00)<br />
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<div align=right>Jennifer Sheffield, May 2017</div>Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837014618062351546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-46506531053724711822017-04-28T18:45:00.000-04:002017-04-28T18:45:11.740-04:002017 Kids' Lit Fest Author Tiffany Schmidt<h3>
<span style="color: #990000;">Meet Tiffany Schmidt</span></h3>
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<span>Tiffany Schmidt is the author of Send Me a Sign, Bright Before
Sunrise, and Hold Me Like a Breath. She’s found her happily ever after
in Pennsylvania with her saintly husband, impish twin boys, and a pair
of mischievous puggles.<br /><br /> You can find out more about her and her
books at: TiffanySchmidt.com, TiffanySchmidtWrites.tumblr.com, or by
following her on Twitter @TiffanySchmidt.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Meet Tiffany Schmidt's Books</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Hold Me Like a Breath</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b> School Library Journal</b> - </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“A
crime narrative that satisfies a craving for suspenseful romance, entertaining
adventure, and edge-of-your-seat survival drama.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">USA Today - </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Pretty
dang awesome modern fairy tale. Add this to your must-read pile!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bustle –</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">an organ trafficking fairy tale for the ages.”</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-70235005974680679702017-04-28T18:27:00.000-04:002017-04-28T18:27:16.716-04:002017 Kids' Lit Fest Author Victoria Scott<h3>
<span style="color: #990000;">Meet Victoria Scott</span></h3>
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Victoria Scott is the author of eight novels including <em>Titans</em>, <em>Fire & Flood</em>, <em>Salt & Stone</em>, the <em>Dante Walker</em> trilogy, <em>Hear the Wolves</em> (March 2017), and <em>Violet Grenade</em> (May 2017). She is published by Scholastic and Entangled Teen, and is represented by Sara Crowe of Pippin Properties.<br />
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Victoria’s latest novel, <em>Titans</em>, received two starred reviews, and <em>Fire & Flood</em> has
been selected as a 2017 Spirit of Texas Reading Program
book. Victoria’s novels have been bought and translated in fourteen
foreign markets. The author currently resides in Philadelphia, and loves
hearing from her readers.<br />
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Here are a few things about Victoria you may want to know:</h4>
1. She is deathly afraid of monkeys. No animal should look that much like a human.<br />
2. She has a fiery passion for cotton candy. Her husband once drove herto seven different stores looking for the stuff. We they found it, she bought 12 bags.<br />
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3. She likes old, creepy-looking trees so much that she actually house-hunted by scouting streets with the best ones.<br />
4. Music. If it’s not loud and angry, she wants no part of it.<br />
5. She was a cheerleader in high school. Like a hard-core competitive cheerleader you see on ESPN(2).<br />
6. It upsets her when YA books feature mean cheerleaders.<br />
7. Her favorite color is yellow. She doesn't feel like it gets near enough street-cred.<br />
8. She can twirl a baton like nobody’s business.<br />
9. Movies with giant, robotic aliens scare her to her core. It could happen. She just knows it.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Meet Victoria Scott's Books</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Hear the Wolves</span></h4>
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<br />So she shouldn't be afraid of anything. But
ever since her mom left the family and she lost hearing in one ear in a
blizzard, it's been hard to talk to people, and near-impossible to go
anywhere or do anything without her dad or big sister within eyesight -
it makes her too scared to be on her own.<br /><br />When they leave her
home alone for what should only be two nights, she's already panicked.
Then the snow starts falling and doesn't stop. One of her neighbors is
hurt in an accident. And the few people still left in Rusic need to make
it to the river and the boat that's tied there - their only way to get
to a doctor from their isolated Alaska town.<br /><br />But the woods are
icy cold, and the wolves are hungry. Sloan and her group are running out
of food, out of energy, and out of time. That's when the wolves start
hunting them. . .<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Titans</span></h4>
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Ever since the Titans appeared in her Detroit neighborhood, Astrid
Sullivan's world has revolved around the mechanical horses. It's not
just the thrill of the race. It's the engineering of the horses
themselves and the way they're programmed to seem so lifelike. The
Titans are everything that fascinates Astrid, and nothing she'll ever
touch.<br /><br />She hates them a little, too. Her dad lost everything
betting on the Titans. And the races are a reminder of the gap between
the rich jockeys who can afford the expensive machines and the working
class friends and neighbors of Astrid's who wager on them.<br /><br />But
when Astrid's offered a chance to enter an early model Titan in this
year's derby, well, she decides to risk it all. Because for a girl from
the wrong side of the tracks, it's more than a chance at fame or money.
Betting on herself is the only way she can see to hang on to everyone in
the world she cares about. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-55050819202204274632017-04-28T18:07:00.001-04:002017-04-28T18:07:55.775-04:002017 Kids' Lit Fest Author Justina Ireland<h3>
<span style="color: #990000;">Meet Justina Ireland</span></h3>
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Justina Ireland<b> </b>enjoys dark chocolate, dark humor, and is not too
proud to admit that she’s still afraid of the dark. She lives with her
husband, kid, and dog in Pennsylvania. She is the author of <i>Vengeance Bound </i>and <i>Promise of Shadows</i>.<i> </i>Visit her at JustinaIreland.com.<br />
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Justina has a blog in which she posts anonymous reviews of YA books - anonymous because authors can suffer very real blow-back for calling out racist and other stereotypes in YA books. All of the reviews are deeply thoughtful, and raise important questions. Intrigued? Start with these:<br />
<a href="http://justinaireland.com/dammit-this-is-a-blog/2017/3/19/writing-is-hard-redemption-arcs-for-racist-characters" target="_blank">Writing is Hard: Redemption Arcs for Racist Characters</a><br />
<a href="http://justinaireland.com/dammit-this-is-a-blog/2017/3/26/rfj89mpej7t1mutoghycxpq9usxo0x" target="_blank">Mulan as an important cultural narrative</a><br />
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<i><span style="color: #990000;">Adjectives most often used in reviews: snarky, sly, darkly funny, ominous, dynamic, tantalizing, diverse </span></i></h4>
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it or not in this snappy, <i>Kirkus Reviews </i>calls “a dark, slyly funny read.”<br /><br />Zephyr
Mourning has never been very good at being a Harpy. She’d rather watch
reality TV than learn forty-seven ways to kill a man, and she pretty
much sucks at wielding magic. Zephyr was ready for a future pretending
to be a normal human instead of a half-god assassin. But all that
changed when her sister was murdered—and Zephyr used a forbidden dark
power to save herself from the same fate.<br /> <br />On the run from a
punishment worse than death, an unexpected reunion with a childhood
friend upends Zephyr’s world—and not only because her old friend has
grown surprisingly, extremely hot. It seems that Zephyr might just be
the Nyx, a dark goddess that is prophesied to shift the power balance:
for hundreds of years the half-gods have lived in fear, and Zephyr is
supposed to change that.<br /> <br />But how is she supposed to save everyone else when she can barely take care of herself? <br />
snarky novel with a serving of smoldering
romance that Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-24026866053916087412017-04-28T17:36:00.001-04:002017-04-28T17:36:53.208-04:002017 Kids' Lit Fest Author Sonia Belasco<h3>
<span style="color: #990000;">Meet Sonia Belasco</span></h3>
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I have spent much of my professional life working with teenagers as a
mentor, tutor and therapist, and I'm often inspired by their passion,
creativity and strength. I write because I love stories and I love
sharing them. Truly great stories transport you to other places, let you
live other lives and be a part of worlds only limited by the scope of
your imagination. It's the most affordable way to travel.<br />
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Other
things I love: TV shows about high school, baking, travel, mysteries
where everyone is very British. Hip-hop of all types and flavors (ask me
about Tupac vs. Biggie and be prepared to hang out for a while).
Attempting cooking experiments. Analyzing pop culture. Photography.
Going to live theater. Putting on a show.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKkoQN7eHLzSZk-hGvs36scD8cO8Rv8O3Sm2tcAZkwP5CPgJavpFFounHv2TYE02quEzYsnorSPh5VkVUsyjmnKjfCitJvzoFNwKXnu6AI_bDBnom9GfQXWO412fQstsWdmuqmKQ/s1600/Belasco+Moo+Cow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKkoQN7eHLzSZk-hGvs36scD8cO8Rv8O3Sm2tcAZkwP5CPgJavpFFounHv2TYE02quEzYsnorSPh5VkVUsyjmnKjfCitJvzoFNwKXnu6AI_bDBnom9GfQXWO412fQstsWdmuqmKQ/s200/Belasco+Moo+Cow.jpg" width="198" /></a>Notable accomplishments
include: I think I've probably seen every contemporary movie that
involves dance battles or superheroes. My cat Moo Cow, a sassy Maine
Coon/Angora mix from the mean streets of West Philly, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/moocowtiberius/" target="_blank">has an Instagram</a>. I once spent way too much time <a href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/sbelasco" target="_blank">cataloging my personal library on LibraryThing</a>. I <a href="http://8tracks.com/sonia-belasco/mixes/1" target="_blank">make a killer mix tape</a>, and everything I write has a soundtrack.<br />
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I'm
a native of Washington, D.C., and I currently live in Philadelphia, PA,
where I keep (valiantly!) trying to acquire a taste for cheesesteaks.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Meet Sonia's Highly Anticipated First Book</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Highly? Who's been anticipating it? <i>Teen Vogue, Bustle, HerCampus, Bookpage, School Library Journal, Girls' Life </i></span></h4>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiymY_j8Y82R5HCP-t5_4ciUGVO8CsY11SMYGPA_rLMH6YKDuN2F3Vrj5vxgJSig9yV7duyie_XZTRkxP5BFxD-TgnFfdLyb-nBI-f8vowfX0-ZpF3A6BOq6XjFNyori_L-dYnOwA/s1600/Belasco+Speak+of+Me+as+I+am.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiymY_j8Y82R5HCP-t5_4ciUGVO8CsY11SMYGPA_rLMH6YKDuN2F3Vrj5vxgJSig9yV7duyie_XZTRkxP5BFxD-TgnFfdLyb-nBI-f8vowfX0-ZpF3A6BOq6XjFNyori_L-dYnOwA/s320/Belasco+Speak+of+Me+as+I+am.jpg" width="211" /></a>Melanie and Damon are both living in the shadow of loss. For Melanie,
it's the loss of her larger-than-life artist mother, taken by cancer well before her time.
For Damon, it’s the loss of his best friend, Carlos, who took his own
life.<br /> <br /> As they struggle to fill the
empty spaces their loved ones left behind, fate conspires to bring them
together. Damon takes pictures with Carlos’s camera to try to understand
his choices, and Melanie begins painting as a way of feeling closer to
her mother. But when the two join their school’s production of <i>Othello</i>,
the play they both hoped would be a distraction becomes a test of who
they truly are, both together and on their own. And more than anything
else, they discover that it just might be possible to live their lives
without completely letting go of their sadness.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-89993901735923610242017-04-28T17:17:00.000-04:002017-04-28T17:17:03.051-04:002017 Kids' Lit Fest Author Margo Rabb<h3>
<span style="color: #990000;">Meet Margo Rabb</span> </h3>
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Margo Rabb is the author of the novels <i>Kissing in America </i>and
<i>Cures for Heartbreak</i>. Her essays, journalism, book reviews, and short
stories have been published in <i>The New York Times, The New York Times
Book Review, The Atlantic, Slate, The Rumpus, Zoetrope: All-Story,
Seventeen, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, One
Story</i>, and elsewhere, and have been broadcast on NPR. She received the
grand prize in the Zoetrope short story contest, first prize in the
Atlantic fiction contest, first prize in the American Fiction contest,
and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award. Margo grew up in Queens, New
York, and has lived in Texas, Arizona, and the Midwest; she now lives
in the Philadelphia area with her husband and children. Visit her online
at www.margorabb.com<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"> Meet Margo Rabb's Books</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Acclaimed writer Margo Rabb’s <i>Kissing in America</i> is “a
wonderful novel about friendship, love, travel, life, hope, poetry,
intelligence, and the inner lives of girls,” raves internationally<i> </i>bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert (<i>Eat, Pray, Love</i>). </span></h4>
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In
the two years since her father died, sixteen-year-old Eva has found
comfort in reading romance novels—118 of them, to be exact—to dull the
pain of her loss that’s still so present. Her romantic fantasies become a
reality when she meets Will, who can relate to Eva’s grief.
Unfortunately, after Eva falls head-over-heels for him, he picks up and
moves to California with barely any warning. Not wanting to lose the
only person who has been able to pull her out of sadness—and, perhaps,
her first shot at real love—Eva and her best friend, Annie, concoct a
plan to travel to the west coast. As they road trip across America, Eva
and Annie confront the complex truth about love. <br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Cures for Heartbreak</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #990000;"> A heartfelt novel that Michael Chabon called “sad, funny, smart, and endlessly poignant.” </span></h4>
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Less than two weeks after fifteen-year-old Mia Pearlman’s mother is
diagnosed with cancer, she dies, leaving Mia, her older sister, and
their father to face this sudden and unfathomable loss. As Mia struggles
to navigate her grief, she’s also forced to examine the truth about her
parents’ rocky marriage, her unexpected feelings for a guy with
leukemia, and the nagging health phobias that plague her on a daily
basis. Ultimately, her journey down this road slowly paves the way for
hope amid immeasurable loss. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-36651580108172898792017-04-28T17:02:00.001-04:002017-04-28T17:02:59.631-04:002017 Kids's Lit Fest Author Amy Ignatow<h3>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Meet Amy Ignatow</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Amy Ignatow is an illustrator and teacher who has also
been a farmer, a florist, a short-order vegan cook, a dancing chicken, an SAT
prep instructor, a telefundraiser, a wedding singer, a ghost-writer for
internet personal ads, a reporter, and an air-brush face and body painter
working under the name "Ooga". She graduated from Moore College of
Art and Design and lives in Philadelphia with her husband Mark and their cat,
Mathilda, whom they believe to be well-meaning despite all evidence to the
contrary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her first series of books, The
Popularity Papers, is a Big Blue Marble bestseller, with legions of
middle-grade fans.<b><span style="color: #c00000;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Meet Amy's New Series!</span></span></h3>
<span style="color: #990000;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The Mighty Odds </i>is <i>The Breakfast Club </i>for a new generation. </span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCflKXpZLbs7RlKUeusInV5ro3KEOC1iMbw5VUAHN1TmQhXhzNJFTQOAA9olTSeZc01PnIhy67z9ebjSZzhWHaEJpVIkjU0O55E-1KO4KxHfAGxs0nmGYTGaZoMRhV54WWDPbvSQ/s1600/Amy+Ignatow+The+Mighty+Odds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCflKXpZLbs7RlKUeusInV5ro3KEOC1iMbw5VUAHN1TmQhXhzNJFTQOAA9olTSeZc01PnIhy67z9ebjSZzhWHaEJpVIkjU0O55E-1KO4KxHfAGxs0nmGYTGaZoMRhV54WWDPbvSQ/s320/Amy+Ignatow+The+Mighty+Odds.jpg" width="242" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">From the renowned author/illustrator of the Popularity Papers series<i>, </i>Amy
Ignatow, comes the first installment in a new series about a diverse
crew of middle school kids who develop very limited superhero powers
after a strange accident and manage to become unlikely friends on the
adventure of a lifetime.<br /> <br /> When a sweet nerd, an artsy
cartoonist, a social outcast, and the most popular girl in school are
involved in a mysterious bus accident, this seemingly random group of
kids starts to notice some very strange abilities they did not have
before. Artsy Martina can change her eye color. Nerdy Nick can teleport .
. . four inches to the left. Outcast Farshad develops super strength,
but only in his thumbs. And Cookie, the It Girl of school’s most popular
clique, has suddenly developed the ability to read minds . . . when
those minds are thinking about directions. They are oddly
mighty—especially together.<br /> <br /> This group—who would never hang
out under normal circumstances—must now combine all of their strengths
to figure out what happened during the bus accident. With alternating
narratives from each of the heroes, including illustrated pieces from
Martina, and featuring bold female superheroes and a multicultural cast,
<i>The Mighty Odds </i>is <i>The Breakfast Club </i>for a new generation.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-16174701017692760092017-04-25T22:14:00.000-04:002017-04-28T18:48:48.697-04:002017 Kids' Lit Fest Author Julie Fortenberry<h3>
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #990000;">Meet Julie Fortenberry</span></span></span></b></h3>
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I'm part of a family of artists. My husband is a painter. My son is also an artist, and my daughter is a choreographer and dancer. <span style="color: black;"></span> <br />
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I have an MFA in painting from Hunter College. My abstract artwork <span style="color: black;">has been exhibited in solo and group shows in galleries including White Columns and the Whitney Museum of American Art. </span> <br />
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For information on how I work, please see my conversation with Julie Danielson at <a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=3379" rel="nofollow"> Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.</a> To read my essay on the value of public libraries, please visit the <a href="http://www.cbcbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/KQ-Fortenberry.pdf" target="_blank">Children's Book Council</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Meet Julie's Book</span></h3>
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Armed with a vivid imagination and her trusty cat mask, Lily can take on anything--even a new school...<br />
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But when her teacher tells her no masks allowed in class, Lily worries, <i>can she make friends without it?</i><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: black;">Anyone
who has been daunted by a new experience, or struggled to put on a good
face, will relate to Lily. Whimsical art brings Lily, her father, and
her new classmates to life, with text that begs to be read aloud.
Perfect for Father's Day, back to school, and even Halloween--Lily and
her grinning cat mask are sure to make you smile back.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"> </span></h3>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-74817670697006770882017-04-25T21:46:00.000-04:002017-04-28T18:48:13.135-04:002017 Kids' Lit Fest Author Sandy Asher<h3>
<span style="color: #990000;">Meet Sandy Asher</span></h3>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">One of my happiest childhood
memories is of the many hours I spent in the children’s reading room of the
Free Library at Logan Square in Philadelphia, PA, where I grew up. Way back
then, I thought there could be nothing more wonderful than to write a book
someone would love as much as I loved my favorites. I still think so.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">And I still love to visit
libraries.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">I began creating plays in second
grade at James G. Blaine Elementary School. That was my idea of “let’s
pretend” — making up stories to be acted out, telling my friends where to
stand, what to say, and when to say it. I guess they enjoyed it as much
as I did, because we rehearsed a lot and performed for our class and,
eventually, the entire school. My teachers were always encouraging,
even those I lampooned mercilessly in my script for the senior class play, “My
Fair Bear,” at Germantown High. They let me graduate anyway.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">My professional writing career
began with the publication of poems in literary journals and stories, poems,
and articles in children’s magazines, including <i>Highlights for Children</i>,
<i>Humpty Dumpty’s Magazine</i>, and <i>Weekly Reader. </i>The
playwriting continued, too, with several plays in </span></b><i><b>Plays
Magazine. </b></i><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">My first book
for young readers, SUMMER BEGINS, was published in</span></b><b> </b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">1980. Since then, I’ve written 25 more — YA novels,
chapter books for middle schoolers, and picture books for the very young.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Meet Sandy's Books</span></b></span></h3>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #990000;">Chicken Story Time</span></span></b></h4>
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Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to story time at the library,
of course! The children like the chicken, the chicken likes the
children, and everyone loves story time. So it’s no surprise that more
children (and more chickens!) get in on the fun until there are more
kids and critters than the librarian knows what to do with. Luckily, she
comes up with a creative solution and manages to find little R & R
for herself.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Too Many Frogs</span></h4>
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Rabbit lives alone. He cooks for himself, cleans up for himself, and at
the end of the day, reads himself a story. It's a simple life, and he
likes it. But one evening, Froggie shows up at his door. He wants to
listen to Rabbit's story, too. While eating a snack-or three. While
lounging on a pillow-or ten. And bringing over his family-dozens and
dozens of frogs! Rabbit has finally had enough; Froggie will have to
go! But when he sits down alone to read himself a story, Rabbit
realizes something is missing: someone to listen; someone to share a
wonderful story. <br />
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<![endif]-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-81257265808410067392017-04-25T19:56:00.001-04:002017-04-28T18:47:08.772-04:002017 Kids' Lit Fest Author Mônica Carnesi<h3>
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related to illustration: paint, brushes, pencils, color pencils, blank
notebooks, art supply stores, libraries, bookstores, picture books, you
get the idea.<br /><br />Her love of illustration and of books led her to another career: she's a librarian at <a href="http://www.freelibrary.org/" target="_blank">The Free Library of Philadelphia</a>. A perfect fit for her interests!<br /><br />She loves dogs too. Growing up, her first dog was a little mutt named Snoopy. Now she and her husband have a silly little terrier mix name Giovanni<br /><br />Curious about how to pronounce her name? Click <a href="http://www.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?aid=19843" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Bear sits on Beatrice's carrots while beehive watching, he doesn't
make a very good first </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">impression. However, despite a rocky beginning,
the bear and the bunny become great friends sharing adventures all
through the spring, summer, and fall. Then one day Beatrice can't find
her pal, and Squirrel informs her that he's hibernating—a long winter
sleep. Beatrice loves the idea and soon joins Bear. "Really? Bunnies
hibernate too?" "Definitely!" said Beatrice. "Bunnies are GREAT
hibernators." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But as Bear drops off to sleep, poor Beatrice can only
toss and turn. Finally giving up, she leaves the den declaring, "Winter
is ruined!" But with the help of Squirrel, Beatrice puts her friendless
time to good use, and when Bear awakens, she greets him with a scrapbook
of the season. This wonderful book is filled with pictures, drawings,
and notes that they can read together again and again. - <i>School Library Journal</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Little Dog Lost: The True Story of a Brave Dog Named Baltic</span></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This dramatized version of a true story involves a little brown dog that
was spotted in 2010 floating on a chunk of iceberg down Poland’s
Vistula River toward the Baltic Sea. Children summon firefighters, and a
human chain is made to try to save the animal, but the current pulls
too quickly. Night comes but yet the mutt survives: “Dog’s thick fur
keeps him warm. But Dog is wet and tired and hungry. And he is scared.
Don’t be scared, Dog!” Finally a research vessel spots the dog and,
despite a tense moment when Dog slips into the water, succeeds in
bringing him aboard, where, to this day, he remains a happy crew member. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Though delivered simply, this tale is intrinsically powerful—kids know
how slippery ice can be, and Dog’s loneliness and helplessness is
similarly relatable. Carnesi’s soft, comforting watercolors make great
use of wide tableaux of tiny Dog almost lost among the huge sea of blue
water and white icebergs. A short but informative author’s note closes
out this inspirational, heart-tugging offering. - <i>Booklist</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Meet Judy Schachner </span></h3>
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Judy
Schachner was born into an Irish Catholic working class family from New
England. Money was as tight as their apartment was tiny and though she
may not have had the easiest of childhoods, she credits her imagination
with helping her survive it.<br />
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She can’t ever remember a time when she was not drawing and like most
budding artists she doodled on everything, including her father’s bald
head. She drew herself into stories where she was the smartest in her
class and into a family where mothers lived to be a ripe old age. In
many ways, Judy feels that her own life has resembled the fairy tales
she loved reading as a child, complete with a happy ending. And the
best part of this author/illustrator’s story? She married a prince of a
guy and they had two beautiful daughters and just like the mothers in
her earliest tales, she plans on living to a ripe old age.<br />
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Described by the New York Times as “…something like the James Joyce
for the elementary school – set…”, Judy Schachner is the #1 NY Times
Best Selling Author/Illustrator of over 23 books for children including <a href="http://www.judithbyronschachner.com/bits-and-pieces/"><i>Bits & Pieces</i></a>, the <a href="http://www.skippyjonjones.com/">Skippyjon Jones series</a>, <a href="http://www.judithbyronschachner.com/yo-vikings/"><i>Yo Vikings</i></a>, <a href="http://www.judithbyronschachner.com/the-grannyman"><i>The Grannyman</i></a> and <a href="http://www.judithbyronschachner.com/willy-and-may/"><i>Willy and May</i></a>. She has won many awards including the first E. B. White Read Aloud Award.<br />
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Skippyjon Jones! Need we say more? Who would have guessed books about a Siamese kitten who dreams he is a crime-fighting Chihuahua could have won over a generation of parents and kids?<br />
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Whenever Judy visits the store her young fans come out in droves, so come early on the 20th to meet her and get your signed books!<br />
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Between now and then, you can feed your Skippyjon frenzy with <a href="http://www.skippyjonjones.com/webisode.php" target="_blank">these great webcasts of his adventures</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">The Grannyman</span></h3>
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<i>The Grannyman </i>is one of Event Coordinator Elliott's favorite picture books ever - that story of Simon, a very old cat who's just about ready to give up after a long
and fulfilling life. But his family has a creative solution to get rid
of Simon's doldrums: a new kitten! The unexpected companion lifts
Simon's spirits and gives him lots to do and lots to look forward to.
Simon's caring ways with the kitten earn him a nickname, and a place in
the hearts of readers of all ages.<br />
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As much as she loves the book,though, Elliott does advise that getting her 16 year old cat a kitten did NOT create the inspiration for a sweet children's story. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-4108816853511085562017-04-19T21:16:00.000-04:002017-04-19T21:16:16.985-04:002017 Kids' Lit Fest Author Ame Dyckman<h3>
<span style="color: #990000;">Meet Ame Dyckman</span></h3>
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often dresses like her book characters. (SEE?!) She’s also the award-winning,
internationally-translated author of the fantastically illustrated (THANKS,
illustrators!) picture books <i>BOY + BOT, TEA PARTY RULES</i>, the <i>New York
Times</i> bestselling <i>WOLFIE THE BUNNY, HORRIBLE BEAR!, YOU DON’T WANT A
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child who always had her nose in a book. “And Band-Aids on my knees, ’cause
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Meet Ame's Books</span></span></h3>
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<b>C. Alexander London (Alex) </b>has written books for
children, teens, even a few for grown-ups. He’s the author of <i>The Wild Ones
</i>series,<i> Dog Tags</i> and <i>Tides of War </i>series, as well
as the <i>Accidental Adventures </i>and two titles in The 39 Clues series for
young readers.<br />
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His young adult debut, <i>Proxy</i>, was an American Library Association
Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Readers and included on their 2014 Best
Fiction For Young Adults list. Proxy is a 2015 Texas Lone Star Reading List and
TAYSHAS Reading List selection, a 2016 Intermediate Sequoyah Masterlist
selection in Oklahoma, and has been on many state reading lists including
Colorado, Arkansas, Missouri. The sequel, <i>Guardian</i>, is available now.<br />
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His books for adults include<i> One Day The Soldiers Came: Voices of
Children in War </i>and National Jewish Book Award finalist<i> Far From Zion</i>.<br />
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Alex was born in Baltimore, Maryland and moved to New York to attend
Columbia University. He graduated with a degree in philosophy and earned his
Masters Degree in Library Science from Pratt Institute.<br />
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At one time a journalist reporting from conflict zones and refugee camps, he
has recently moved from Brooklyn, NY, to Philadelphia, PA where he can be found
wandering the streets talking to his dog, who is the real brains of the
operation.<br />
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5 Fun Facts About Alex, From Alex </h4>
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the “Junior” Category. It might actually have been in Delaware. My triumph
didn’t last.</span></li>
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movie agent in order to get a Master’s in Library Science because of a
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Meet Alex's Books</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #990000;"> </span></h4>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;"><i>Proxy</i></span> </b></div>
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<b>“Put down what you’re doing and read this
book. Right now. The complex characters, intricate world, and blistering
pace are off-the-charts amazing.” —Marie Lu, author of the Legend
trilogy</b><br />
<b><a href="http://www.slj.com/2013/07/interviews/marie-lu-and-alex-london-talk-about-debt-society-and-proxy-sljteen-interview/" target="_blank">Marie Lu and Alex discuss debt and dystopias</a> </b><br />
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Syd’s life is not his own. As a proxy he must to pay
for someone else's crimes. When his patron Knox crashes a car and kills
someone, Syd is branded and sentenced to death. The boys realize the
only way to beat the system is to save each other so they flee. The
ensuing cross-country chase will uncover a secret society of rebels,
test the boys' resolve, and shine a blinding light onto a world of those
who owe and those who pay.</div>
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This fast-paced thrill ride of a novel is
full of breakneck action, shocking twists and heart-hammering suspense
that will have readers gasping until the very last page.<br />
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“<i>Whipping Boy</i> + <i>Blade Runner</i> with a sprinkling of <i>The Hunger Games</i> (plus, of course, a dash of <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i>) = a treat for teen SF fans.” —<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">“<b>Raccoon hero Kit and his ragtag community of
creatures will sneak their way into your imagination and steal your heart. They
may pick your pocket, too, but they’ll take you on an adventure you won’t soon
forget. This is a fantasy that kids will adore (and quick-of-paw parents will
steal). A wild ride from a wildly imaginative author</b>.”–Katherine Applegate,
Newbery Medal-winning author of <i>The One and Only Ivan</i> and the
bestselling Animorphs series</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kit is a young raccoon who has lived his whole life
under the Big Sky. But when a pack of hunting dogs destroy his home and kill
his parents, Kit needs to escape.<br />
<br />
He finds himself in Ankle Snap Alley, a city in the midst of a turf war between
the Wild Ones and the people’s pets who call themselves The Flealess. There he
uncovers the secret that they died for–an ancient truce that gives Ankle Snap
Alley to the Wild Ones. But the Flealess will stop at nothing to keep that
secret buried forever, and Kit is in serious danger. Only the brave of heart
and quick of paw can save the Wild Ones now.<br />
<br />
Perfect for fans of the Warriors, Spirit Animals, or Redwall series, this first
book in the Wild Ones epic is sure capture young readers’ imaginations and take
them on a great adventure.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-87071974842279246432017-04-17T17:20:00.000-04:002017-04-17T17:22:03.548-04:00Poetry Is Not a Luxury: Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec<h4>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Poetry is Not a Luxury April 2017</span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Natalie Diaz, <i>When My Brother was an Aztec</i></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">NATALIE DIAZ’s poetry is raw, rhythmic, and tender. <i>The New York Times</i> called her debut, <i>When My Brother Was an Aztec</i>
(2012), an “ambitious… beautiful book.” Pima and Mojave, and an
enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community, Diaz was born and
raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She
earned her BA from Old Dominion University, where she received a full
athletic scholarship and majored in English and Women’s Studies. She
went on to play basketball professionally in Europe and Asia before
returning to Old Dominion to earn an MFA in Creative Writing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Poems from the Collection</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/56355#poem" target="_blank">My Brother at 3 a.m.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/56353" target="_blank"> <span class="hdg hdg_1">Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/56356" target="_blank"><span class="hdg hdg_1"> No More Cake Here</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="hdg hdg_1"><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/56832" target="_blank">My Brother My Wound </a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzkQd78A9UM" target="_blank">Natalie Diaz reading selections</a> from the book </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Adrian Matejka <a href="https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/new_american_poets/natalie_diaz/" target="_blank">on the work of Natalie Diaz</a></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's
tempting to get caught up in the biographical elements of Natalie
Diaz's writing. The poems, as well as her author bio and interviews,
invite the reader to draw direct connections between her varied
identities—Mojave, a former pro-basketball player, an MFA-holder, and an
archivist of Indigenous languages—and those of the speaker in her first
collection, <i>When My Brother Was an Aztec</i>. Diaz has done so many
different kinds of things that her stories have stories, but what she
does on the page is much more dexterous and surprising than
confessionalism or any of its variant offshoots. <i>When My Brother Was an Aztec</i> is
a spacious, sophisticated collection, one that puts in work addressing
the author's divergent experiences—whether it be family, skin politics,
hoops, code switching, or government commodities.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From a <a href="http://therumpus.net/2013/10/when-my-brother-was-an-aztec-by-natalie-diaz/" target="_blank">review in The Rumpus</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">Fortunately for us, the poems in Diaz’s commanding debut poetry collection, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781556593833/when-my-brother-was-an-aztec.aspx?rf=1" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #c00000; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When My Brother Was an Aztec</a></i><span style="background-color: white;">, don’t rely on the angels. They embrace what Lorca called the duende: the kind of force and struggle that—unlike the angel and the muse— “surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet.” They aren’t the kind of perfect, crystalline poems that seem to have fallen from the heavens. These are rangy, muscled works that have both a dancer’s grace and a mechanic’s oil-stained hands.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interviews with Natalie Diaz</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/08/maybe-its-like-a-prayer-in-that-regard-an-interview-with-natalie-diaz/" target="_blank">Poetry Foundation</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ND:</b> Sometimes people are overwhelmed by the violence in
my poems. I guess, when we see someone’s heart ripped out, we tend to
look away—we question why we had to see it. I do not deny that violence,
not in real life or in my work. I cannot unsee what I’ve seen. But I
hope my poems also remind people of the humanity that exists in the
midst of it.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.kenyonreview.org/2017/02/an-interview-with-natalie-diaz/" target="_blank">Kenyon Review </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">ND: The body is urgent. The neuropathy in my mother’s feet, the press of my
lover’s hips, the ache in my jaw after my root canal this morning, the
flinch in my student’s mouth when he said his grandmother passed. The
urgency is that we are all connected. Our desires to survive. The
urgency is that we are all of the same energy, connected. There is a
light in me that is a light in you that is the light in a deer or a
jaguar—the energy of life. The beautiful urgency of light, like a thread
tethered around all of our wrists, making us touch one another, hit one
another, beckon one another. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/conversation-poet-natalie-diaz/" target="_blank">PBS Newshour conversation</a> with Natalie Diaz on video (4+ minutes) </span></span> <br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/new_american_poets/natalie_diaz/" target="_blank"><br /></a></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Natalie Diaz on the <a href="https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/natalie-diaz-on-the-physicality-of-writing/" target="_blank">physicality of writing</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="highlight">I believe I came to poetry from around the
corner. From a cul-de-sac really. On a rez far from where poetry ever
visited. The cavalry visited. The ARMY. The railroad. They all visited.
Not poetry.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe what I mean is that I need the rigor and radicalism of
friendship to be a poet, to be anything, really. I have found those
friendships in poetry, but I found them by letting poetry be a small
part of them. Language is why I am at poetry. Anger is why I am at
poetry. Architecture is why I am at poetry. Haptics is why I am at
poetry. My brother is why I am at poetry. The field or cave beyond
myself where I go when I touch my lover is why I am at poetry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Poetry is a thing I do with the love and chaos I feel for my beloveds
and this land and the energy in every living being. It is a room to
enter. There are a thousands ways to enter that room. I want to try them
all.</span></span></blockquote>
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2017 from Unsolicited Press, and Amy's <i>Walking Toward Cranes</i>, winner of
the Kithara book Prize from Glass Lyre Press. All 3 poets prove that lyric
poetry is the most powerful way to bring to light the hardest emotional
journeys - while not all great truths are conveyed as great art, all great art
conveys great truths.</span></span><br />
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Recognition is something very like godliness: 4 writers</span></b></h3>
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Big Blue is happy to welcome two of our own, one returning guest, and one poet
new to our store: Hal Sirowitz, Minter Krotzer, Philip Fried, and Ethel Rackin.
Through lyric, pastiche, history, humor, essays, and memoir, all four writers
engage in "elegant quarrels with the cruelty and ignorance of the world
or, more precisely, its inhabitants." (as one reviewer describes Fried's
work). If you love words that make you think with your head, heart, and gut,
there is no other place to be.</span></span></div>
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Big Blue Marble is thrilled to welcome 3 Philly poets as they read at the store
for the first time! Shy Watson, Amy Saul-Zerby, and Alina Pleskova describe
their work as modern, feminist, zany, dark, casual, lyrical, angry, and direct,
with erotic undertones. Amy Saul-Zerby is the managing editor of the spoken
word-based publication <i>Voicemail Poems</i> & lives in Philadelphia.</span></span><br /><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
Alina Pleskova is the coeditor of <i>bedfellows</i>, a literary magazine
focused on narratives of sex/desire/intimacy, & cohost of Poetry Jawns, a
podcast. Shy Watson is a poet & painter living in Philadelphia. She has two
chapbooks, <i>AWAY STATUS </i>& <i>my parents were going to give me your
name if i was born a boy</i> (Bottlecap Press 2016, 2017). She is the poetry
editor for <i>fields</i> magazine.</span></span></div>
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The Body and the Machine</span></b></h3>
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Poets Leah Falk and Lee Nussbaum Fogel present an evening of words exploring
bodies and visions. Leah Falk is a poet whose work has appeared in <i>Kenyon
Review, FIELD, Blackbird</i>, and many other journals. She runs programming at
the Writers House at Rutgers University-Camden. Lee Nussbaum Fogel is a Somatic
Movement Educator, Reiki practitioner, and Interdisciplinary Artist who helps
people live out their callings in accordance with their wellbeing and bodies'
wisdom. She is the director and founder of The Visioning Body and teaches and
performs throughout and beyond Philadelphia.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Most</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">poets have a day job</span> - <span style="font-weight: normal;">but not every poet is a professor of mathematics or
4th year student in Optometry</span>. <span style="font-weight: normal;">The poems in</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Marion Deutsche</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Cohen's</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">latest book</span>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Truth and Beauty</i> continue the conversations she held with her students
in her literature and mathematics course ‘Truth and Beauty.’ Jonathan Jacesko
is a 4th year student at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus
University. In his spare time he began writing eye care-related poems in the
styles of Dr. Suess and Shel Silverstein, and from those created a book illustrated by other optometry students While these works started out as a
way to get a laugh out of classmates, a first place finish in the school talent
show led to many suggestions that the poems become a book. To make these poems
come to life in pictures he worked with talented optometry students from across
the country. They created black-and-white line drawings as well as eye-care
related coloring pages and mazes. In every way the book is intended to be a fun
and interactive celebration of eye care.</span></span></div>
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April 21<sup>st<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>@ 7pm</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></h3>
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us for an evening of poetry on behalf of our world – urban and wild
communities, endangered species, the rights and lives of those whose voices are
censored and muffled. Line up to be announced.</span></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-1144441307318989632017-03-07T19:05:00.000-05:002017-03-07T19:07:25.268-05:00"Franklinstein" by Sue Landers<h3>
The March, 2017 Poetry Is Not a Luxury Book Club selection is <i>Franklinstein</i> by Susan Landers</h3>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">A place of good blocks and bad blocks and brick roads<br />
and boxwoods. The site<br />
of America’s first gingko tree.<br />
The birthplace of pushpins and Louisa May Alcott.<br />
A place of sparrows and spires and schist</span></h4>
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beloved place, wrestling with legacies of colonialism, racism, and capitalism.
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quintessential American texts (<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin</span></i>
and Gertrude Stein's <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Making of Americans</span></i>), Landers' <i>Franklinstein</i> is a
monster readers have not encountered before.</span><br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<i>FRANKLINSTEIN</i> is a church of stained glass truth- telling."—Yolanda
Wisher<br />
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"In her study of Germantown, Landers derives a poetics of urban history,
of being from, really from, a place—Philadelphia—that cuts itself into your
skin."—Simone White</span></span></blockquote>
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Susan Landers on how this collection came to be</h3>
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At the beginning of this writing I was reading. Reading two books I had
never read before: <i>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin</i> and <i>The
Making of Americans</i>. And as I was reading, I thought: I should make a new
book. A new book from pieces. A new book using only Ben’s words and Gertrude’s.
And so I did that. For months. Cutting and pasting little pieces. To make a
monster. And it was so boring.<br />
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It was so boring, my dead thing of parts.<br />
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Then the church I grew up in closed. The church where my mother and father
were married. The church where they baptized their babies. A church in
Philadelphia in the neighborhood where I grew up. A kind of rundown place. A
place of row homes and vacants and schist.<br />
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And when I went there to see that place—the place that was with me from my
very beginning—I thought, this will breathe life into my pieces. This will be
the soul of my parents. I thought: if I could write the story of this place and
its beginnings, this writing would be the right thing, a kind of living.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is where my writing began. </span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.tingemagazine.org/an-interview-with-susan-landers/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">from An interview with Susan Landers in Tinge magazine:</span></a> My project started when I could no longer stand the fact that I hadn’t yet read <i>Making of Americans</i> (as a Stein fan) or <i>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin</i> (as a Philadelphian). So, I decided to spend 40 days of my 40<sup>th</sup> year reading them both and writing down lines that stood out to me — either musically or semantically.</h4>
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<a href="https://thefemlitmagazine.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/franklinstein-by-susan-landers/https://thefemlitmagazine.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/franklinstein-by-susan-landers/" target="_blank">from A review in FemLit Magazine:</a> In Franklinstein, Susan Landers tells the story of Germantown, a
Philadelphia neighborhood. The mixed-genre volume starts as an elegy for
a closing church in Germantown. It is at once an ode to this place and a
critical scouring of how the history of such places are made.</h4>
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<a href="http://www.phillyvoice.com/new-book-poems-franklinstein-tells-complicated-history-germantown/" target="_blank">PhillyVoice explores Germantown with Susan Landers: </a>It was right around this time, this church [St. Francis of Assisi] I had grown up in, in Germantown, was closing. And I remember appreciating it as a child and said ‘I want to see it
before it becomes’ — what I said at the time — ‘another abandoned
building in a neighborhood of abandoned buildings.’ So I wanted to see
it before it became this lost space. And when I went down to see it, I
realized that interpretation of Germantown was totally wrong. It’s not a
place of abandoned buildings, even though there are some, and I
realized that Germantown, this place, was really complex. It wears all
of its history on its sleeve. You hear the language of the Lenape
in the Wissahickon and the street names are all [named after] these
Revolutionary War generals. And there’s like an — it’ll be an 18th-century
mansion next to a steak and cheese [shop] next to a factory from the
industrial revolution. It’s just all [these sights] combined. All these
layers. </h4>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">of incense and boxwood and brick</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="margin-left: 50px;">pride and bullets and prayer</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="margin-left: 100px;">wisteria and helicopters and figs</span></span></h4>
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turtles and burkas and hacks. </span></h4>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-36920301593882541812017-02-23T18:17:00.000-05:002017-02-27T17:34:46.678-05:00A Brief List of Memorable Young Adult Series<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">
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<li><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Finishing School (Etiquette & Espionage)</b></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b> by Gail Carriger:</b> Victorian era with (well-mannered) vampires and werewolves.</span></li>
<li><b><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sorcery & Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> by </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Caroline Stevermer and Patricia Wrede:</b> Regency England with magic and chocolate.</span></li>
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Historical Fiction:</strong><br />
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<li><b><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Code Name Verity </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">and</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Rose Under Fire</em></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b> by Elizabeth Wein:</b> Young women flying and imprisoned during World War II.</span></li>
<li><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Chains</b></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b> by Laurie Halse Anderson:</b> Slavery and loyalty during Revolutionary times.</span></li>
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Fantasy with Kingdom Intrigue:</strong><br />
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<li><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Graceling</b></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b> by Kristin Cashore:</b> How to use one's power to help and not to hurt. The two following books (to read in either order, but </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Graceling</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> first) have similar focus with different main characters.</span></li>
<li><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Seraphina</b></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b> by Rachel Hartman:</b> How to survive in court as a secret half-dragon when one's existence is considered an abomination.</span></li>
<li><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Provost's Dog/Beka Cooper (Terrier)</b></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b> by Tamora Pierce:</b> How to be fair in one's work for the Provost's Guard and engage in only the right amount of corruption. Takes place 200 years before the Alanna books. (If you prefer espionage, try the </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Trickster</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> series, about Alanna's daughter.)</span></li>
<li><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>The Queen's Thief (The Thief)</b></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b> by Megan Whalen Turner:</b> Don't believe everything the narrator says. He's a thief, after all, and kind of sneaky. </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> 5th book coming out in May!</b></li>
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Coming of Age:</strong><br />
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<li><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Dairy Queen</b></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b> by Catherine Gilbert Murdock:</b> Learning to speak up about what one really wants.</span></li>
<li><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Tiffany Aching (The Wee Free Men)</b></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b> by Terry Pratchett:</b> Learning to be a witch, and how much of that is learning to be oneself.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b><i>Every Day </i>and <i>Another Day</i></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b> by David Levithan:</b> Learning to navigate sustained human interaction when one wakes up in a different body every day.</span></li>
<li><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Annals of the Western Shore (Gifts)</b></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b> by Ursula K. Le Guin:</b> Similar to </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Graceling</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> -- can one's power be used to create and not destroy? Also similar to </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Graceling</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> (and to Le Guin's </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Earthsea</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> series) in that the books focus on separate, though interlocking, stories.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Previously published in the <a href="http://conta.cc/2jh7H6n">January 2017 Big Blue YA Newsletter</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">For links to recent YA newsletters, see August post <a href="http://bigbluemarblebooks.blogspot.com/2016/08/young-adult-book-club-post-book-club.html">"Young Adult Book Club Post-Book-Club Newsletters"</a>.</span></span></div>
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Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07837014618062351546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-31183348884188253652017-01-31T20:56:00.000-05:002017-02-02T17:31:32.452-05:00Yolanda Wisher, "Monk Eats An Afro"<br />
Poetry Is Not a Luxury Book Club<br />
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017 @ 7pm<br />
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<i>Monk Eats an Afro</i> by Yolanda Wisher<br />
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Yolanda's Philly launch party for Monk Eats an Afro at Big Blue Marble is legendary. The store was packed, the music went on for hours, the energy was through the roof and walls, and (<i>we are booksellers after all</i>) the sales were so busy Yolanda had to keep bringing more cases of books out of her car.<br />
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And that was <i>before</i> she was named Philadelphia's 3rd Poet Laureate!<br />
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<i>Monk Eats an Afro </i>is an extraordinary poetry collection, and Yolanda Wisher is an extraordinary poet. Not only talented, but outrageous, generous, inspired and driven to bring the gifts of poetry to everyone, everywhere.<br />
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Below you'll find a collection of resources to help you explore the book and the poet. Read up, because Yolanda will be visiting our book club as we discuss her book!<br />
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Cold Front Magazine, <a href="http://coldfrontmag.com/top-40-poetry-books-of-2014-10-1/" target="_blank">Best Poetry Books of 2014</a>: <br />
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Yolanda Wisher’s <i>Monk Eats an Afro </i>is the most complete and
perfectly constructed book of poems I read in 2014. Each poem seems
built ideally unto itself and in the context of the full product. Every
single note and line break is perfectly suited to the mood or condition
of the poem, and she keeps our attention by fitting the entire
manuscript with interludes–“Songs” that are deeply felt, that are deeply
musical, and that read like standards</blockquote>
Yolanda Wisher on finding out she was the <a href="http://www.phillyvoice.com/five-friday-poet-laureate-yolanda-wisher/" target="_blank">next Philadelphia Poet Laureate in Philly Voice</a><br />
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<b>How did you react when you first heard the news that you’d be the next poet laureate?</b></blockquote>
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I danced to a Missy Elliott song on the third floor of my house.</blockquote>
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Philadelphia Neighborhoods, <a href="https://philadelphianeighborhoods.com/2015/09/25/arts-entertainment-qa-with-yolanda-wisher-germantown-poet-and-2015-pew-fellow/" target="_blank">Interview with Yolanda Wisher</a><br />
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Poetry has always been a healing tool. I grew up in a house that was
embroiled in some domestic violence and addiction and poetry was my
outlet, so I knew what kind of space it was able to create. And I also
knew what kind of dreams it could make for me.<br />
So, as much as I can see that and connect with that in other people,
regardless of age, I want to support it and guide it and create a space
for it. Knowing that not everybody is going to want to be a professional
poet, but the tools of poetry, expression, giving form to your emotions
and your ideas, all of the little minute things about the craft that I
learned as an undergraduate and graduate student can be boiled down to
some way of connecting with people, some kind of human relationship.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/own_words/Yolanda_Wisher/" target="_blank">Poetry Society of America</a> on Yolanda Wisher<br />
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Yolanda Wisher's debut collection of poems <i>Monk Eats an Afro</i> is blues: sorrow, soul, rhythm, breath. The poems in this collection coincide with italicized song lyrics (Wisher is
a singer and musician, not just a poet). The narrator of these poems
often speaks to the reader colloquially (recounting stories, images)
then shape-shifting words, sounds, and meanings. "I be the ruby flo / I
be the ruby flowin / that jewel / anciently / aggravatin /
undulatin..." </blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/yolanda-wisher" target="_blank">Poetry Foundation</a> on Yolanda Wisher <br />
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Wisher’s poems are musical, playful, and brutal, and she infuses spoken
language with blues-informed cadence to engage themes of intimacy,
power, and identity. In a 2014 interview with Lynn Rosen for the
Philadelphia <i>City Paper</i>, Wisher stated, “I definitely saw early
on the job of the poet being [to create] a collective and collaborative
experience. I love the solitary experience of writing and mulling over
and reflecting on things. But something about the exchange, whether it’s
through a reading or a workshop, … the communal experience of poetry
really speaks to me.”</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-934909-42-3" target="_blank">Publishers Weekly</a> on <i>Monk Eats an Afro</i><br />
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“You are Black/ and have a right to this// this be your fiddle/ claim
it,” announces Wisher in her debut collection, a blend of beat and slam
poetry, peppered with lullabies and ballads. For all of Wisher’s
songsmithing, her poems are strongest for their dexterous mix of gall
(“America, you beautiful suitor of indigenous bitches. I am a slaveship
and you are a skyscraper”) and lyric restraint (“the trees/ were her
lovers/ the wet earth/ her alibi/ she knew the way/ forward/ was going
back/ and she gathered us up”).</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.yolandawisher.com/rubyflo/" target="_blank">Hear Yolanda perform </a>some of the poems from Monk Eats an Afro, including "Ruby Flo" <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02413738776910978731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26522703.post-43646172297798530982017-01-31T10:53:00.000-05:002017-08-28T18:23:42.288-04:00On Immigration and Refugees: Books for Kids and TeensIn the wake of the new president's unethical halt on immigration from select Muslim-majority countries, I am compiling some beautiful and inspiring books that focus, first, on exactly those populations -- Muslim people and/or refugees from the Middle East. They are joined by other books that focus on immigration and different cultures. This is not at all a comprehensive list; at the end, I'm including links to other, similar lists, and some further resources for understanding the issues.<br />
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Compiled by Jennifer Sheffield<br />
latest update: 8/28/17<br />
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<b>Picture books:</b><br />
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Two kids meet in a refugee camp in Pakistan, each having acquired one of the same pair of shoes. Story of sharing and friendship.<br />
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<u>The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Saved Jews During the Holocaust</u> by Karen Gray Ruelle; illustrated by Deborah Durland DeSaix (2009) <br />
Detailed and gorgeously illustrated account, based on scant available research, of the ways the Muslim community of Paris were able to smuggle Jewish refugees out of the city during the Holocaust.<br />
<a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=The Grand Mosque of Paris">Email us to order.</a><br />
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<u>Coming to America: A Muslim Family's Story</u> by Bernard Wolf (2003)<br />
Photo-essay about an immigrant family living in New York. Tells the story of their emigration from Egypt while focusing on a year in their life in the U.S.<br />
<a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=Coming to America by Bernard Wolf">Email us to order.</a><br />
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<u>Migrant</u> by José Manuel Mateo; illustrated by Javier Martínez Pedro (2014)<br />
This detailed fanfold book follows the journey of a kid and his family from Mexico to the United States, through both text in English and Spanish and a single connected narrative illustration.<br />
<a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=Migrant by J.M. Mateo">Email us to order.</a><br />
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<u>Sitti's Secrets</u> by Naomi Shihab Nye (1994)<br />
A Palestinian-American child goes to meet her sitti, or grandmother, who lives halfway around the world.<br />
<a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=Sitti's Secrets">Email us to order.</a><br />
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<u>Yoko Learns to Read</u> by Rosemary Wells (2012)<br />
With only Japanese picture books at home, Yoko worries that she won't be able to learn to read English as soon as her classmates.<br />
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<u>The Name Jar</u> by Yangsook Choi (2001)<br />
Worried about not being accepted at her new school, Unhei announces she will choose a new name. A story of self-acceptance.<br />
<a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=The Name Jar">Email us to order.</a><br />
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<u>My Dadima Wears a Sari</u> by Kashmira Sheth (2007) <br />
Rupa's grandmother tells wonderful stories about what a sari can do, and shows her the sari she wore to travel to America.<br />
<a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=My dadima wears a sari">Email us to order.</a><br />
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<u>We Came to America</u> by Faith Ringgold (2016)<br />
Vivid illustration of the diversity of peoples that make up this country. (Including those who were already here.)<br />
<a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=We came to America">Email us to order.</a><br />
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<u>Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family's Journey (In English and Arabic)</u> by Margriet Ruurs, illustrated by Nizar Ali Badr, translated by Falah Raheem (2016)<br />
A beautiful collaboration between a Syrian artist who makes breathtakingly emotive pictures using beach pebbles and a children's book writer who discovered his work online. Tells a story in verse of a family's experience fleeing war in their own country and finding refuge in a new land.<br />
<a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=Stepping Stones/Ruurs">Email us to order.</a><br />
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<u>From Far Away</u> by Robert Munsch and Saoussan Askar, illustrated by Michael Martchenko (1995) / Rebecca Green (2017)<br />
A new release of Saoussan Askar's story of coming to the U.S. to escape a war, and starting school in a new country. She wrote to Robert Munsch in 2nd grade about her experiences, and he helped her turn them into a picture book.<br />
<a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=From Far Away/Munsch & Askar">Email us to order.</a><br />
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<b>Chapter/Middle Grade books:</b><br />
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Two children, one Christian, one Jewish (and blind), learn to trust each other while fleeing the Ethiopian famine in the 1980s.<br />
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<u>The Arrival</u> by Shaun Tan (2007)<br />
A wordless, detailed, and surreal graphic novel of migration to a partly real, partly fantastical new world.<br />
<a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=The Arrival">Email us to order.</a><br />
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<u>Refugee</u> by Alan Gratz (2017)<br />
Three parallel stories: Josef's family is trying to flee Germany for Cuba in 1939. Isabel's family is trying to flee Cuba for the U.S. in 1994. And Mahmoud's family is trying to flee Syria for Germany in 2015. Told in short chapters one after another as they move farther and farther from their homes toward an unknown future.<br />
<a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=Refugee by Alan Gratz">Email us to order.</a><br />
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<u>Number the Stars</u> by Lois Lowry (1989)<br />
A Christian girl helps her Jewish friend's family to escape Denmark during the Holocaust. Based on true history: the Danish resistance managed to rescue nearly all of the Danish Jews.<br />
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<u>The Mighty Odds</u> by Amy Ignatow (2016)<br />
A story of four kids from different social circles who together develop strange and awkward powers, including a kid who's been ostracized due to made-up fears about his Iranian parentage. Sequel coming in September!<br />
<a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=Mighty Odds">Email us to order.</a><br />
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<u>Inside Out and Back Again</u> by Thanhha Lai (2011)<br />
A verse novel based on the author's experiences as a refugee in Alabama after fleeing the Fall of Saigon: at first speaking no English, and then struggling to find happiness in a new world.<br />
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<u>Amina's Voice</u> by Hena Khan (2017)<br />
A Pakistani American girl struggles with change while watching her best friend, also from an immigrant family, befriend a formerly mean kid and talk about changing her name. And then her local mosque is vandalized.<br />
<a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=Amina's Voice">Email us to order.</a><br />
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<b>Young Adult:</b><br />
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Two teens, one a child of Korean immigrants and one trying to halt her whole family's imminent deportation to Jamaica, meet and fall for each other. <br />
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<u>Black Dove, White Raven</u> by Elizabeth Wein (2015)<br />
Set in the 1930s in both the US and Ethiopia, a story of two kids of different races, raised as siblings after one of their mothers dies, learning to navigate both air flight in peacetime and wartime, and issues of race, gender, country, and parentage.<br />
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<u>This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration</u> by Linda Barret Osborne (2016)<br />
A nicely accessible history of immigration from the 1500s to almost-present, not shying away from the contradictions and cognitive dissonance that have followed that history over the centuries. Illustrated with photos and historical documents.<br />
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<b>More Young Adult: I highlighted quite a few Young Adult books (and one for Middle Grade) on these topics in <a href="http://conta.cc/2bRrgNf">September's YA newsletter</a>. Follow the <a href="http://conta.cc/2bRrgNf">link</a> to read descriptions of the following:</b><br />
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<b>Highlighting: The World Trade Center attacks of 2001 and resulting xenophobia</b><br />
<u>Shine, Coconut Moon</u> by Neesha Meminger (2009) <a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=Shine, Coconut Moon">Email to Order</a><br />
<u>Towers Falling</u> by Jewell Parker Rhodes (2016) <a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=Towers Falling">Email to Order</a><br />
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<b>Highlighting: Arabic/Muslim kids</b><br />
<u>Habibi</u> by Naomi Shihab Nye (1999) <a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=Habibi ">Email to Order</a><br />
<u>I Am Malala</u> by Malala Yousafzai (2013/2014) <a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=I Am Malala, young readers version">Email to Order</a><br />
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<b>Highlighting: Immigration and refugees</b><br />
<u>Surviving Santiago</u> by Lyn Miller-Lachmann (2015) <a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=Surviving Santiago">Email to Order</a><br />
<u>Mexican Whiteboy</u> by Matt de la Peña (2008) <a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=Mexican Whiteboy">Email to Order</a><br />
<u>Home of the Brave</u> by Katherine Applegate (2007) <a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate">Email to Order</a><br />
<u>Outcasts United</u> by Warren St. John (2009/2012) <a href="mailto:orders@bigbluemarblebooks.com?subject=Outcasts United, young readers version">Email to Order</a><br />
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<b>Additional lists and resources:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.readbrightly.com/books-to-help-kids-understand-what-its-like-to-be-a-refugee/">Books to Help Kids Understand What It’s Like to Be a Refugee</a> by author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich<br />
<a href="http://bookriot.com/2017/02/06/young-adult-middle-grade-reads-travel-ban-countries/">Young Adult and Middle Grade Reads from & about Countries from Trump’s Travel Ban</a> by Kelly Jensen at Book Riot (2017)<br />
<a href="http://imyourneighborbooks.org">I'm Your Neighbor Books</a>, a searchable database of books portraying the contemporary immigrant and refugee experience.<br />
<a href="https://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/ten-middle-grade-books-that-reflect-the-us-immigration-experience-by-natalie-dias-lorenzi/">Ten Middle Grade Books that Reflect the US Immigration Experience</a> by librarian Natalie Dias Lorenzi (2012)<br />
<a href="http://www.brycs.org/clearinghouse/Highlighted-Resources-Children-Books-about-the-Refugee-Immigrant-Experience.cfm">Children's Books about the Refugee/Immigrant Experience</a> from Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services (BRYCS)<br />
<a href="http://www.ala.org/emiert/sites/ala.org.emiert/files/content/usefullinks/contempimmigrant.pdf">Contemporary Immigrant Experiences in Children’s Books</a> from the Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) of the American Library Association (2006)<br />
<a href="http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-55-spring-2017/feature/immigrant-and-refugee-children-guide-educators-and-school-su">Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff</a> from Teaching Tolerance<br />
<a href="http://www.redcross.org.uk/~/media/BritishRedCross/Documents/What%20we%20do/Teaching%20resources/Lesson%20plans/Refugee%20week%202016/Key%20Facts.pdf">Fact Sheet for Refugee Week 2016</a> from the British Red Cross<br />
<a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/education/2015/10/8-educational-resources-to-better-understand-the-refugee-crisis/">8 educational resources to better understand the refugee crisis</a> from Amnesty International (2015)<br />
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