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Publication Date:  October 8, 2019 Format:  Audio Genre:   AA &  LGBTQ + poetry Narrators:  JD Jackson Publisher:  HighBridge         Length:  1 hours 0 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Jericho Brown's daring new book  The Tradition  details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown's poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie?  Brown makes mythical pastorals to question the terrors to which we've become accustomed, and to celebrate how we survive. Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, ...

Title: Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes Publisher: Speak 167 Pages Genre: YA Synopsis: Something's going on. Something more than a high school poetry assignment. Kids are taking a look, leaning in close, asking why or how. Wesley Boone, writing a poem for Mr. Ward's class and actually wanting to read it aloud, poetry slam style. Lupe Algarin, desperate to have a baby so she will feel loved. Raynard Patterson, hiding a secret behind his silence. Porscha Johnson, looking for an outlet for her anger after her mother OD's. One by one, eighteen voices speak up, show themselves to the world and deal with the consequences. Through the poetry they share and the stories they tell, their words and lives show what lies beneath the skin, behind the eyes, beyond the masquerade. Review: What a wonderful and powerful book.  Every other chapter tells the tale of one of the kids in Mr. Ward's class, how they feel inside and how people seem to see them.  After each persons sto...