Poetry – Page 131 – Cannonball Read 17

Boogie fever, I think it’s going around

How Do You Dance? by Thyra Heder

February 18, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

How Do You Dance? is a modern story about how everyone has their own way of dancing. Some people are graceful, others not so much. Some dance in groups and others alone. But no matter how you dance, just getting out and dancing is the thing to do! Thyra Heder created a clever way to get a child reading as well as a’ movin’ and a’ groovin’! Heder’s book is just a happy book. It is a bout being you and having fun. Along the […]

When the poet laureate comes to town

In Mad Love and War by Joy Harjo

February 18, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I don’t usually read poetry collections for funsies, or much at all really. But when the Poet Laureate of the United States decided to do a talk/reading at the mid-level state school where I work, I made an exception. To decide if I wanted to brave the crowds, I got a copy of one of Joy Harjo’s collections In Mad Love and War from the library. I don’t often enjoy a lot of contemporary poetry; I’m a little too much of a formalist for that […]

Ciaran Carson’s Last Words: Love, all love

Still Life by Ciaran Carson

February 18, 2020 by tiny_bookbot 1 Comment

I love Ciaran Carson’s work. I have loved it since my junior year of undergrad, when I was studying abroad in Scotland and took a course on contemporary Scottish and Irish literature. We read The Ballad of the HMS Belfast: A Compendium of Belfast Poems, and something in Carson’s depictions of his beloved, troubled city hooked itself deep inside me. I have never forgotten the closing lines of his poem “Smithfield Market”: Since everything went up in smoke, no entrances, no exits. But as the charred […]

Selena: Queen of Tejano Music

Selena: by Silvia Lopez

February 17, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Selena is a downright gorgeously illustrated book by Paola Escobar. Silvia Lopez’s text hits on the highlights of the singer’s life. Each page is a short chapter into a piece of her life. The two pieces blend together; complimenting each other and bring to life the world, the looks and the sound of Selena. There is not only the world inside the home and on the stage, but the neighborhood and people as well. The afterwards dealing with everything from definitions and explanations of terms, […]

A urgent rallying cry

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom

February 7, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

We Are Water Protectors will be another book that will get people talking about the situation presented. Perhaps it will not be as popular as others, but this book deals with Native American and environmental issues that are relative to the current environment we live in. While it is based on the Carole Lindstrom’s experiences growing up and the contemporary events of the peoples; it is a book that is for everyone. It shows what one group of people are trying to do. This is […]

Colors in rainbows

Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy

February 6, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Black Is a Rainbow Color has several levels. It would be good for black history month and a book that will get people talking in general. Angela Joy realizes (as mentioned in their afterwards) that “being black” is not just skin color, but it is a culture, too. This book is aimed to educate not only her own children, but the community as well. The narrator speaks about how black is not like the other colors of the rainbow but has its own rainbow of […]

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