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Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience
Edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond

Booktalk: This collection of sixty-four poems by poets who come from all over the world shares the experience of first- and second-generation young adult immigrants and refugees.

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A Hymn to Childhood

Childhood? What childhood?
The one that didn’t last?
The one in which you learned to be afraid
of the boarded-up well in the backyard
and the ladder to the attic.

The one presided over by armed men
in ill-fitting uniforms
strolling the streets and alleys
while loudspeakers proclaimed a new era,
and the house around you grew bigger,
the rooms farther apart, with more and more
people missing?

An excerpt from a poem by Li-Young Lee

A 2019 Cybils Poetry nominee

Redwood and Ponytail
by K.A. Holt (Author)

Booktalk: Kate and Tam meet, and both of their worlds tip sideways. At first, Tam figures Kate is your stereotypical cheerleader; Kate sees Tam as another tall jock. And the more they keep running into each other, the more they surprise each other. Beneath Kate’s sleek ponytail and perfect façade, Tam sees a goofy, sensitive, lonely girl. And Tam’s so much more than a volleyball player, Kate realizes: She’s everything Kate wishes she could be. It’s complicated. Except it’s not. When Kate and Tam meet, they fall in like. It’s as simple as that. But not everybody sees it that way.

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A 2019 Cybils Poetry nominee