Product Description: A collection of poems from the 2015 Newbery Medalist, Kwame Alexander If I can have a literary son, I like to think it is Kwame Alexander...Hard worker, truth seeker, soul sharer. --Nikki Giovanni Like the minimalist, melodic, melancholy music of 20th century French Composer Erik Satie, poet Kwame Alexander's parsed, fecund words dance their way into one's heart, head...read more

1975 1st American Edition Hardback with dust jacket

Product Description: From Kwame Alexander, the 2015 Newbery Medalist, a collection of poetry for young people. STARRED REVIEW: Gr 8 Up: Alexander offers a cosmopolitan menu of tanka, haiku, long titles that lead into short first lines, verbal formulas that lead to sung discoveries, French phrases, prose poems, and poems written in Spanglish...read more

Product Description: Poet phenom Kwame Alexander grabs his pen again to carve words into the emotional heart of the human spirit. In his third book of poetry, Dancing Naked On The Floor, Alexander intentionally and successfully abandons all rules of conformity and runs wild among the playfulness of words...read more

Product Description: Do The Write Thing Seven Steps to Publishing Success provides a definitive point-by-point instruction manual for getting into print whether you want to publish a family memoir, the next great American novel, or simply learn the ins-and-outs of the self-publishing world...read more

Product Description: According to Dr. Thomas Battle, director emeritus of the Moorland-Spingarn Center at Howard University, The Village That Shaped Us sets the standard for how to look at a community. Using oral history interviews in the way of Anna Deavere Smith and Studs Terkel to tell the story of a Freedmen's Village settled in 1867 on a hill overlooking the nation's capital in SE Washington, DC, the reader is taken on a journey into a community sold to blacks by the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War...read more

Product Description: poetry, intro Toni Blackman

Product Description: This collection of radiant, inspiring love poems by a true soldier of love (E. Ethelbert Miller) is a perfect companion for those who want to share their hearts, or wish to mend them. Whether you hope to kindle the flame in a new relationship or just want to savor some great new verse, Kupenda is all you need to augment your romantic arsenal...read more

Product Description: 2015 Newbery award winner Kwame Alexander knows how to tap into students’ creativity and jumpstart unparalleled excitement for reading and writing. Alexander shares the essential tools and techniques required for drafting, revising, editing, publishing, and presenting original work...read more

Product Description: A New Children's Picture book about the adventures of boyhood, with full color photographs, by acclaimed children's book author Kwame Alexander.