Download or read book Northside Poetry written by Tone One and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-01-20 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Northside Cries and Lullabies written by N. V. Torres and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northside Cries and Lullabies is the second collection of poetry and prose by poet N.V. Torres. The book is a poetic exploration into the growth and struggles of a woman living on the northside of Philadelphia.

Download or read book North Side of the Grave written by Dan Tharp and published by Page Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northside of the Grave is a collection of poetry, reflecting the heartaches and pleasures given us by this unpredictable life. It was written from 2009 to the present while falling in and out of love with Patricia Kosta. My need for loneliness was eventually overcome by her need for intimacy, and we have been together on a permanent basis since January 2013. As I'm fond of saying, she chased me until I caught her. This book is dedicated to her. Excerpt from "By Your Presence" If you have ever considered whether trickling streams rejoice to meander their way to a turbulent ocean, you must then consider the paths that have led me to you through the inconvenience of circumstance and the rending of hearts. And as surely as the sun licks the morning clouds, ascends the eastern horizon, the scent of dawn has left your fragrance upon the air I breathe, in the moments of intimacy, when I am refreshed by your presence.

Download or read book The Idea of North written by Doug Linder and published by Caribou Creek Press. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry of Doug Linder is characterized by plain speech, empathy, wit, and a penchant for taking readers to surprising places. The Idea of North brings together more than fifty poems set in the North Country (“Is it a place or is it an idea?”). Linder’s poetic imaginings wander the North from the polar-bear-prowled streets of Churchill to hot springs under Montana’s big sky, but he returns most often to the place he knows best, Minnesota’s distinctive “North Shore,” the wild lands north of Lake Superior. Many of these playful poems consider wildlife (you’ll find poems about lynx, moose, wolves and woodpeckers) and the natural world (lichens, dragonflies, northern lights), but the collection also includes poems about such diverse subjects as curling, maple syrup, taconite plants, second homes, and a gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Deftly mixing deep insights and play, this is a poetry book even for people who thought they didn’t like poetry. Book Review: "Doug Linder has a most definite idea about the North, especially the area Midwesterners refer to as “The North Shore.” It’s an idea that comes from years of roaming the shores of Lake Superior, getting to know its people, towns, wildlife, and traditions—an idea rooted in sheer love for a place out “In the Middle of Nowhere.” What is the best way to preserve something amazing and beautiful? What is the best way to share it? Linder finds making poetry suitable for both; in one of his “spot of time” poems, he tells his twenty-three-year-old self to “memorize” a meeting with a lone wolf: “Remember his amber eyes, / and his leisurely lope across the snow-covered tundra.” Forty years later, he remembers how the moment pierced him, “setting [him] on fire.” Such transfers of experience fill the collection as the narrator looks for ways to pass his “sense of place” down to the next generation (and the next). “We want them to love what we love,” he admits, and happily for us, the poems in The Idea of North bring us a long way there." -- Joyce Sutphen, poet laureate of Minnesota (2011-2021) and author of Carrying Water to the Field and This Long Winter

Download or read book Last of the Northside Cowboys written by James Leland Berkman and published by . This book was released on 1980-10-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sign of the North Poems written by Horia Ion Groza and published by Reflection Books. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetry of Lifting Potatoes To ask a farmer of poetry is a strange request, worse yet a potato farmer. I have known Horia for a long time, to a time before either of us imagined being grandfathers. We were compatriots in what is the durable and subtle empire of the potato. He a researcher, I the actual dirtball. As fellow writers we were a touch odd for our earthy environment, whence came a certain compassion for each other. Of a poet caught, or perhaps trapped, in this hectic, grimy business of agriculture. As an essayist I’m not well mannered compared to the spare words of the poet. As a story writer I do approach words rather like a Lenco potato harvester comes to the harvest. In bulk form. Lots of words, though I’d never admit to excess. Decent people do not recognize the Lenco reference. In practice a farm machine the size of a nice house, wheels the size of small sheds, propelled by traction motors capable of lifting off the face of the earth every fall to avail the potatoes laying beneath. A Lenco is not a poetic thing. Monstrosities are not often seen as poetic. This machine hogs the town road. Impatient drivers honk at it. The Lenco disembowels the earth 12 rows at a time. It bellows. It smokes. It smells. It leaks. It works. It isn’t poetic. Poetry is a potato fork. I have several. With a fork you feel the earth, feel gravity, feel the lifting, feel the worms, feel the soil, feel the sweat, feel the tilth. And if you are like Horia and me, feel the godliness of the potato. This book of poems by Horia is not that monster Lenco, instead a potato fork. Poetry equipped with a short handle to feel the gravity of our lives, its worms, its tilth. A forkful at a time, digging is necessary, and in the lifting, to feel the earth’s desire. These words of this potato researcher I’m so honored to know and call friend. Justin Isherwood, writer and potato farmer, in Plover Township, below the moraine where all the streams run west.

Download or read book The Badland s Poetry written by Tone One and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06-19 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s impossible to put this book down! It’ll make you cry, laugh, hate, and love towards everyone around you.

Download or read book The Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 Anthology written by Phyllis Webb and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2004-05-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Making Poems written by Todd F. Davis and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary poets offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the poetic process.

Download or read book Poetry 101 written by Snowflake and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book A Poet for Hire written by Tone One and published by Author House. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet 4 Hire Review. Akilah D. Sneed Tone One has done it again. His words totally put you in tune to all of your emotions, even ones that you either forgot you had or didn’t know you possessed in the first place. There is something here for everyone. From the love sick dreamer, to the stone cold hustler. Some words make you see the world through other people’s eyes; these words make you feel the world through Tone One’s soul. So sit back, relax and just let Tone One’s words wash over you.

Download or read book Near the Timberline Poems and Stories from my Inner Hermit written by Marty Price and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains an ambitious poem, "Black Spruce" and a range of my short stories and poems. Some are serious, some funny. Many have ghosts. All reflect my quirky notions of literary purpose, including the notion that there is something rich and beautiful about this Universe and everything in it.

Download or read book Best Poems of 1995 written by Cynthia A. Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Public Pedagogy written by Jennifer A. Sandlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Ballad of a Ghetto Poet written by A.J. White and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Ha ha written by David Kirby and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feature of English landscape architecture, a ha-ha is a wall at the bottom of a ditch; its purpose is to allow the presence of cows and sheep on one's lawn, but at an agreeable distance and with none of the malodorous unsightliness that proximity would bring. Similarly, The Ha-Ha, the latest offering from poet David Kirby, is both an exploration of the ways in which the mind invites chaos yet keeps it at a distance and an apologia for humor, reflecting Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh's observation that tragedy is merely underdeveloped comedy. Embracing wit, wide-ranging scholarship, and an equal love of travel as well as the pleasures of home, The Ha-Ha depicts comedy as a radical form of intelligence, a way of thinking that just happens to be noisy and rumbustious. We are staying with Barbara's parents on Oahu, and the first night we're there, I notice an angry-looking man is staring at me out of the neighbor's upstairs window and mumbling something, but the second night I realize that it's that poster of Bo Diddley from the famous Port Arthur concert, and there's a phone wirein front of his face that bobs up and down when the trade winds blow, which they do constantly, making it seem as though Mr. Diddley is saying something to me. From "The Ha-Ha, Part I: The Tao of Bo Diddley" published in The Ha-Ha: Poems by David Kirby. Copyright © 2003 by David Kirby. All rights reserved. - See more at: http://lsupress.org/books/detail/the-ha-ha/#sthash.g8vUSeuN.dpuf

Download or read book Poetry March 1991 Bronx New York to Pittsburgh PA written by Mister Lucius Logan Delany, Jr. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry, March 1991…Bronx, New York to Pittsburgh, PA…is a unique collection of poetry from the author’s college years at the University of Pittsburgh. He found solace in writing and added a sense of belonging to his surrounding by undertaking this project. Many of these poems are about moments in life that took meaning while the author was traveling through the northeast of New York City and the southwest of Pennsylvania, and with the hopes of encountering the future in the Bronx, New York. Some of the images are simplistic and some are more complex than others, but the author hopes you enjoy them equally and remember them as mirrors of a past that is gone, but not forgotten.