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World Make Way: New Poems Inspired by Art from The Metropolitan Museum
by Lee Bennett Hopkins (Editor and Author)

Booktalk: “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” –Leonardo da Vinci

Based on this simple statement by Leonardo, eighteen poets have written new poems inspired by some of the most popular works in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum. The collection represents a wide range of poets and artists, including acclaimed children’s poets Marilyn Singer, Alma Flor Alda, and Carole Boston Weatherford and popular artists such as Mary Cassatt, Fernando Botero, Winslow Homer, and Utagawa Hiroshige.

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A 2018 Cybils Poetry nominee

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
by Wade Hudson (Editor) and Cheryl Willis Hudson (Editor)

Booktalk: What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? Fifty diverse creators lend a voice to young activists with original art, poetry, and prose.

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It Helps to Look at
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by Marilyn Nelson

The earthquakes, the militias. History
hairpins and switchbacks like a mountain road.
Things fall apart, no doubt. But good people wake
every day to thank, and to ask what they can do
today to make things better. People call
things back together when they choose to act
on behalf of our planet and all life
spinning with us on her around the sun.

Hear the entire poem in this Poetry Month video from First Book.

A 2018 Cybils Poetry nominee