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Family pictures : poems & photographs celebrating our loved ones / edited by Kwame Alexander ; with assistance by Dianne Beverly, Deanna Nikaido, Angela Boykin and Carolyn Joyner.
LIBRA - Rare PS617 .F35 2007 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--Collections.
- Poetry.
- Genre:
- Collections.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 173 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : photographs ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Largo, Md.] : Capital BookFest, 2007.
- Contents:
- Breathing Lessons / Angela Boykin Turnbull
- To Katharine: At Three / Joelle Biele
- Sitting with Daddy / Melissa Morelli Lacroix
- Ordinary Life / Barbara Crooker
- Dreaming with Sister / Derek Sheffield
- Letting Go / Dan Logan
- Haiku / Roberta Beary
- Haiku / Kyndall Brown
- The Oceans of Your Eyes / Adele C. Geraghty
- Braiding / Gretchen Fletcher
- Overalls and a Starched White Shirt / Judy Kee Greeb
- Leo at Ten / Metta Sama
- Last Days / Susan Rich
- Trimming the Tree / Grace Cavalieri
- Chanukah / Judith Strasser
- So the Snapshots Say / Darlene Anita Scott
- Goddess Redundant / Adele C. Geraghty
- Palette / Jeannette Drake
- Feeding My Mother at Seventy-Two / Tony Medina
- Nighttime Ritual / Andrea Potos
- He Is, She Is / Noni Carter
- To My Daughter on a Fine Fall Day / Carol Carpenter
- Mother, Daughter / Shana Yarborough
- Haiku / Kwame Alexander
- Between Them / Sarah Conover
- Home for the Holidays / Jacqueline Jules
- Grandma / Matilda Cox
- Dizzy / Matthue Roth
- Light / Kim Roberts
- Good Girls / Maritza Rivera Cohen
- In Chaucer's Steps / Christine Compo
- Sista to Sista / J. J. Michael
- Walk with Me / Jason Miccolo Johnson
- Fifty Beads / Deanna Nikaido
- Family Pictures / E. Ethelbert Miller
- Kupenda / Kwame Alexander
- Exploring / Sandra Jones
- Blond and Agile Child / Alan Davis
- First Born / Christine West
- Twilight Pas de Deux / Ann Reisfeld Boutte
- The Vine / Mary-Sherman Willis
- To My Daughter / Pamela Lewis
- Lost in America / Alicia Benjamin-Samuels
- Rx: Poetic Therapy / Sandra L. West
- Mother and Son / Lynn Tait
- A Parent's Revenge / Frederick Lord.
- (Continued) My Mother Ironed / Sandra Cohen Margulius
- My Mother's Voice / Opal Palmer Adisa
- Whistling Mother / Karla Huston
- Pastiche for a Daughter's Absence / Diane Lockward
- Making a Salad / Glen Sorestad
- A Soul Returning / Carolyn Joyner
- A Very Silent Man / Charles P. Ries
- History / Askhari
- When I Write Poems / Alison C. Rollins
- The Gift / Chrissy Banks
- I Go Back in Time and Rescue my Mother / Leah Browning
- Perfume, and Silence / Christopher Conlon
- My Grandmother / Natash Ria El-Scari
- Inheritance / Matilda W. Cox
- My Eues / Stephen Mead
- Alzheimer's 2/9/06 / Mawiyah Bomani
- The Final Shenanigan / Kathleen Sullivan
- Lessons / Ijeona Thomas
- Who??? / Phylis Warady
- Home Sweet Home / Monique Brown
- Tall Sons / Joy Harold Helsing
- A Poem for Little Black Girls / Sylvania Dianne Beverly
- The Klan Marches Washington / Katy Richey
- Little Brown Baby / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Haiku / Regena "Sonray" Reighns
- Grandpa Jack / Michelle J. Pinkard
- Monsoon Reunion Before the Tsunami / Davi Walders
- Search and Recovery / Shin Yu Pat
- Reading Tea Leaves / Christina Lovin
- Carolina Beach 1967 / Jason Kelly Richards
- My Father Speaks / William Reichard
- Did You Enjoy Your Funeral? / Nadir Lasana Bomani
- My Father's Auden / Carly Sachs
- After Virginia Teach / Ching-In Chen
- The World is Not a Pleasant Place To Be / Nikki Giovanni
- If We Were Quarks / Jennifer Gresham
- Good Times / Lucille Clifton.
- Notes:
- Art Direction: Sung Hee Kim/Sagetopia, LLC. Book Design: Rachel Ver Steeg /Sagetopia LLC.
- "Capital BookFest presented by The Washington Post."
- "This book is a celebration of the paradise of family. The woes and wonders. In poetry and photographs, this book includes over 70 poets - new and established - and 10 photographers - award winning and emerging."--Introduction.
- Contains biographical information about the poets and photographers (pages 157-168).
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 9781888018424
- 1888018429
- OCLC:
- 212416481
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