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Respect the mic : celebrating 20 years of poetry from a Chicagoland high school / edited by Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Peter Kahn, Dan "Sully" Sullivan ; foreword by Tyehimba Jess.
Curated by award-winning and best-selling poets, this wide-ranging poetry anthology represents twenty years of poetry from the students and alumni of Chicago's Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club.
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- ISBN: 9780593226810
- ISBN: 059322681X
- Physical Description: 170 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Workshop, 2022.
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| Target Audience Note: | NP Lexile |
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| Subject: | Young adult poetry, American. Youths' writings, American. American poetry. Youths' writings. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center | YA 811.008 RES 2022 (Text) | 0002205383629 | Young Adult Non-Fiction | Checked out | 05/16/2024 |
Respect the Mic : Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School
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Respect the Mic : Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Foreword Tyehimba Jess | p. 1 | |
| Notes from Here | ||
| Introduction Peter Kahn and Dan "Sully" Sullivan | p. 6 | |
| & I Can Find A Home There, Too Dan "Sully" Sullivan | p. 10 | |
| Identity, Black Kyla Robateau | p. 12 | |
| Password Security Questions Ask Me the Right Questions to Know I Am Always Afraid Asia Calcagno | p. 13 | |
| Softball on County Matthew Minich | p. 15 | |
| Oak Park Mutters Statistics Kyla Pereles | p. 16 | |
| Puerto Rican leather sits on my shoulders Matthew Buchta | p. 19 | |
| America Is Just a Negro in an Anthill Morgan Varnado | p. 20 | |
| The Lamppost Glows Orange in the Daytime Hannah Srajer | p. 22 | |
| Birth Cailynn Stewart | p. 23 | |
| Middle of October After Hours Ricky N. Brown | p. 24 | |
| Palms Maggie Farren | p. 26 | |
| Portrait of venice with a side of pasta Kara Jackson | p. 28 | |
| Why I Write Poetry Leah Kindler | p. 29 | |
| Plucking into the Next Camila Gamboa | p. 30 | |
| Taking Down a Confederate Flag in Lincoln Park on June 27th, 2018 Camara Brown | p. 31 | |
| Coming of Age | ||
| Introduction Dan "Sully" Sullivan | p. 36 | |
| When Dinosaurs Roamed My World Riley Moloney | p. 38 | |
| Unwanted pill addiction Jada Maeweather | p. 40 | |
| Destruction Paige Wright | p. 41 | |
| Hairesy Itohan Osaigbovo | p. 42 | |
| I Gave You Power Adam M. Levin | p. 45 | |
| The butcher taught me how to high school Jesus Govea | p. 46 | |
| You're at home, speak English, Mexican Juliana Sosa | p. 49 | |
| On the Bottom of a Swamp Noelle Aiisa Berry | p. 51 | |
| If I Made a Movie About a Preacher's Daughter Grace Gunn | p. 53 | |
| Auto Boy Claire von Ebers | p. 54 | |
| An Open Letter to Mozart William Walden | p. 55 | |
| Ethic Jalen Daniels | p. 58 | |
| Southside with You Tymmarah Anderson | p. 59 | |
| Alternate Names for Black Women Marlena Wadley | p. 61 | |
| Bi, Bi Brown Girl Anandita Vidyarthi | p. 63 | |
| Loops Ibraheem Azam | p. 64 | |
| I could have been a lot of things Patrick Chrisp | p. 66 | |
| Who Does This Feeling Belong To? Langston Kerman | p. 68 | |
| Monsters at Home | ||
| Introduction Franny Choi | p. 73 | |
| My Aunt's Angels Natalie Rose Richardson | p. 74 | |
| It's not that I have a nicotine addiction Eliana Gerace | p. 76 | |
| The Fire Alice Atkins | p. 78 | |
| Its gravestone will read: Here they He-all four of them, together Hannah Green | p. 79 | |
| Ghost of the Ghost Dawson Pickens | p. 81 | |
| Dead Shadow Anna Van Dyke | p. 83 | |
| My Cousin's High Majesty Gunn | p. 84 | |
| Samson Donorica Harris | p. 85 | |
| You can't fall in love with someone every day mo Santiago | p. 87 | |
| Mixed Vann Harris | p. 89 | |
| Black walls in a white home Levi Miller | p. 91 | |
| Darkness has become my new commander Christopher Mantel Byrd | p. 93 | |
| Spiderwebs Zaire Brooks | p. 94 | |
| Welcomes, Farewells, and Odes | ||
| Introduction Peter kahn | p. 98 | |
| Lessons Grace Fondow | p. 100 | |
| Dad, I forgive you, 2013 Coe Chambliss | p. 101 | |
| Return to Sender Jamaal James | p. 104 | |
| Pain Iman Shumpert | p. 106 | |
| Motherhood; Full Circle Sierra Kidd | p. 108 | |
| She Asked Me Christian Harris | p. 110 | |
| Green Chevy Camille Rogers | p. 112 | |
| The Last Good Day Tabitha Hurdle | p. 113 | |
| Bird Merrick Moore-Fields | p. 115 | |
| Transforming As My Mother Peera Serumaga | p. 117 | |
| What Priscilla Was Like Micah Daniels | p. 119 | |
| Flesh of Mine Navana Venerable | p. 121 | |
| Interstellar Birth Jamael "Isaiah Makar" Clark | p. 124 | |
| In the ten seconds after you see that your wife is pregnant, but before you speak David Gilmer | p. 126 | |
| I Used to Love/P.E.N.S. Jessica R. Lewis | p. 128 | |
| Survival Tactics | ||
| Introduction Hanif Abdurraqib | p. 134 | |
| On Loving Someone You've Learned to Hate Charity Strong | p. 136 | |
| Notes on almosts / or, an ode to surviving Dorothy Moore | p. 138 | |
| Get Pretty Le Keja "keja Janae" Dawson | p. 139 | |
| Blood Money Corina Robinson | p. 141 | |
| Tamales on Christmas Christian Robinson (Rich Robbins) | p. 143 | |
| Monster Kelly Renter Raymundo | p. 144 | |
| Super Sad Black Girl Diamond Sharp | p. 146 | |
| Street Mythology Gabriel Townsell | p. 147 | |
| Colors Are Heavy Kris Murray | p. 149 | |
| Why Write? Abby Govea | p. 151 | |
| Family Name Ibrahim Mokhtar | p. 152 | |
| Mansion of the Figurative Nicholas Berry | p. 154 | |
| Most heroes were written on white paper Allen White | p. 157 | |
| Diluted Savastiana Valle | p. 158 | |
| Bug Camp. Age Twelve. Mississippi: The Killing Jar RC Davis | p. 160 | |
| Once a Poet | ||
| Conclusion Langston Kerman | p. 164 |
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