Northside Poetry
Northside Poetry

Author: Tone One

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2000-01-20

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1893652564

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From Northside Poetry: Growing up wasn’t easy, but it wasn’t hard. Mama just wanted me to be okay with my brothers, sisters and myself. All I wanted was to be okay with myself. I don’t need fame because fortune would be enough. . . . The people I’ve met in my life just heard me, but didn’t listen. If people just took the time to listen to our problems, there wouldn’t be problems with us today. It’s not about who is smarter or richer, it’s about who is ahead of the class and how long can you stay there, only the strong can survive. I still feel the same way as I did then, “Step on them or they will step on you!” But in my joyful times I’m the lion who sleeps, and the child in God’s eyes. My ladies and gentlemen, I don’t need you to gossip about me. Cause its still going on with my family. Or I don’t need a spotlight to determine who is the bad guy; I know who I am. Because we all have our own hell, and it’s killing me everyday thinking about mine. If only I could go back in time where I started it all I would, but I’m not God. And I’m living my life just as you, one day at a time. I wrote this letter and poetry to all those who I love and all that I hate. . . . Thank you for listening to my confessions and my cries at night.

The Badland's Poetry
The Badland's Poetry

Author: Tone One

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001-06-19

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0595188494

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It’s impossible to put this book down! It’ll make you cry, laugh, hate, and love towards everyone around you.

The Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 Anthology
The Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 Anthology

Author: Phyllis Webb

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 2004-05-22

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1770891390

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The fourth volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the books shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prizes, chosen by the jurors Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate 2001-2003); Bill Manhire (New Zealand Poet Laureate); and Phyllis Webb (recipient of the Governor General's Award for poetry), who also provide an introduction to the book. Royalties generated from The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthologies are donated to UNESCO's World Poetry Day.

Making Poems
Making Poems

Author: Todd F. Davis

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2010-02-02

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1438431759

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Contemporary poets offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the poetic process.

Poetry 101
Poetry 101

Author: Snowflake

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2010-08

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1609575180

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Poetry 101 Whether in cities celestial To the reader of this book,Or in towns terrestrial, (Whether it be on shelf or in nook)HIS ideas are superb Of this book I must say,For home and suburb. "There are 101 poems in this way." That Man's title? Yes, it takes a thinking manThat Man's name? To understand the poet's plan:My Lord and My Savior: Words with a magnitudeOne in the same. To inspire awe and gratitude. He was sent to Galilee That poet's name?But I born in Kentucky. That poet's title?This book is in your sight: Some call me Snowflake;Discover its soul and might. Some call me Kendall. This book contains the following features: But I am not the Master Poet1.) Aesthetically pleasing 1.5 spacing Nor the Master Architect;between lines of poetry, HIS ideas (don't you know it?)2.) Chapter divisions between its 5 groups I merely reflect.of poetry, 3.) Preface to those chapters of poetry, In short, this book4.) Table-of-contents of styles of Is a mix of poetry,poetry used in this book, Written to edify and make merry5.) Index of poem titles, People like you and me,6.) Introductory information for each poem of this book [excluding Written to expound"Poetry 101", which is on this The merits of intimacy, page], and a And to glorify and praise7.) Glossary of the terms and obscure The God which be.poetic language used in this book.

Finding Refuge
Finding Refuge

Author: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0834843609

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Learn how to process your own grief--as well as family, community, and global grief--with this fierce and openhearted guide to healing in an unjust world. In unsettling and uncertain times, the individual and collective heartbreak that lives in our bodies and communities can feel insurmountable. Many of us have been conditioned by the dominant culture to not name, focus on, or wade through the difficulties of our lives. But in order to heal, we must make space for grief and prioritize our wholeness, our humanity, and our inherent divinity. In Finding Refuge, social justice activist, social worker, and yoga teacher Michelle Cassandra Johnson offers those who feel brokenhearted, helpless, confused, powerless, and desperate the tools they need to be present with their grief while also remaining openhearted. Through powerful personal narrative and meditation and journaling practices at the end of each chapter that explore being present with your heart, Michelle empowers us to see that each of us has a role to play in building enough momentum to take intentional action and shift what is unsettled and unjust in the world. Finding Refuge is an invitation to pick up the shattered parts of yourself and remember your strength, wholeness, and sacredness through this practice of presence and attending to your grief.

Handbook of Public Pedagogy
Handbook of Public Pedagogy

Author: Jennifer A. Sandlin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-07-29

Total Pages: 712

ISBN-13: 1135184194

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Bringing together scholars, public intellectuals, and activists from across the field of education, the Handbook of Public Pedagogy explores and maps the terrain of this burgeoning field. For the first time in one comprehensive volume, readers will be able to learn about the history and scope of the concept and practices of public pedagogy. What is 'public pedagogy'? What theories, research, aims, and values inform it? What does it look like in practice? Offering a wide range of differing, even diverging, perspectives on how the 'public' might operate as a pedagogical agent, this Handbook provides new ways of understanding educational practice, both within and without schools. It implores teachers, researchers, and theorists to reconsider their foundational understanding of what counts as pedagogy and of how and where the process of education occurs. The questions it raises and the critical analyses they require provide curriculum and educational workers and scholars at large with new ways of understanding educational practice, both within and without schools.

Ballad of a Ghetto Poet
Ballad of a Ghetto Poet

Author: A.J. White

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-10-16

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1476706271

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What do you do when you are young and gifted and the world has turned its back at you? That is the wrenching question at the heart of this extraordinary novel about a seventeen-year-old street kid whose only escape is through crime—and the redemptive power of his poetry. Ballad of a Ghetto Poet tells the savage and lyrical story of a teenager caught in the brutal crossfire of poverty and violence that could send him on the collision course to the cellblock—or the grave.​ Chicko Grayson is a teenager growing up on the tough streets of Richmond, Virginia, where poverty is a life sentence, and the only way out is behind the barrel of a gun. Raised on the harsh, brutal language of the streets, Chicko hears the music of God in the poetry he writes. But God is noticeably absent when he falls in with a sly and dangerous criminal who draws Chicko and his best friends Malcolm and Junnie into the city's violent underworld of crime. Filled with the rage and pathos of the streets, eloquent in its anguished portrait of life in the forgotten corners of the South, Ballad of a Ghetto Poet delivers a modern-day interpretation of West Side Story. This is a tragic and heroic tale of desperate hope and lost chances, and of what happens when redemption comes too late.