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Lessons on Being Tenderheaded
In Janae Johnson's debut poetry collection, the concept of being tenderheaded is less about Black hair; more how we are taught to disguise pain through suppression of macro and micro traumas. What began as a book of poetry about women's basketball transformed into a coming-of-age story centering Black queer masculinity, emotional restoration and belonging. From lyrically experimental to personified prose, each poem encourages humor to rise after an eight hour hair appointment and the ultimate decision to wear a ponytail.
Twentysomethings
Whether you are beyond your twenties, currently experiencing, or anticipating these young adult years, you will enjoy this collection of provocative and transparent poetry and prose. Twentysomethings expresses the range of discovery, emotions and growth that influence who we become. Janae J shares a variety of experiences including, unrequited and all-consuming love, daddy issues, being true to yourself, sisterhood and self-validation.
As Poetic As Life
This is a book of poems I have written to express the feelings Ive had in my life. My friends, loves and parents are who inspired me to write. I have always had a hard time telling people how I feel. Through my writing I can do that. My life is the words I write. In these past years, I have grown in my life. I now know how to let go. Poetry is my way of letting go. My feelings are shown in the words I write. I have been through some struggles in my life. Through my poetry, I have been able to work through my problems. The poems have been written throughout my life. Whether it was a good time with friends or my mothers birthday, I had to write down how it felt. Through these poems I have been...
The Room Is on Fire
The Room Is on Fire offers an overview of youth spoken word poetry's history, its practitioners, participants, and practices. Susan Weinstein explores its grounding in earlier literary/performance/educational traditions and discusses its particular challenges. In order to analyze these issues, the story of how youth spoken word poetry developed as a field is told through the voices of those involved. Interviewees include the people who organized the first youth poetry slam festivals, the founders of central youth spoken word organizations, and a selection of young people who have participated in their local programs and in regional and national events over the last two decades. Narratives about individual and communal efforts and experiences are supported by analyses of full-text poems by youth poets and by reference to contemporary scholarship in performance studies, critical youth studies, and new literacy studies. Blending history and theory with practical descriptions of how spoken word poetry is taught and how to produce spoken word events, the book will appeal to researchers, teacher educators, and K–12 teachers.
Poems by Amy Johnson
Poems by Amy Johnson
Having Decided to Stay
Award-winning poet Bryana Johnson writes in her first full-length collection of poetry, I want my ink to do happy dances, to careen across the pages staggering like a drunken fellow, giddy on moonshine or sunset. -FOUND and the words that she has strung together in this winsome compilation do just that. Having Decided to Stay is an exploration in verse of G.K. Chesterton's assertion that, "gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." Its 40 poems present the colossal wonders of human existence with elegant and startling cadence. Bryana embraces both free verse and fixed forms, and her language sings regardless of the pattern she employs. Drawing from classical literature, popular culture, personal experience and the awe of the untamed wild, these poems were spun out of the spilling over of an overwhelmed heart. The poet earnestly entreats the reader to lean in and become transfixed.
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The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems
The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) is a collection of poetry by Georgia Douglas Johnson. Marking Johnson's debut as one of the leading poets of the Harlem Renaissance, The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems is an invaluable work of African American literature for scholars and poetry enthusiasts alike. Comprised of Johnson's earliest works as a poet, the collection showcases her sense of the musicality of language while illuminating the experiences of African American women of the early twentieth century. "The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn, / As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on." Recalling Paul Laurence Dunbar's classic poem "Sympathy," which immortalizes the Afr...
Fatal: Poems
Fatal reflects on the "small and common" events that shock and wound us, contemplating how we can bear human care, knowing the risks.
