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Time you let me in : 25 poets under 25

Call Number

  • 811.08 T5837 TEEN (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Greenwillow Books, c2010.

Physical Description

xix, 236 p. ; 22 cm.

Audience

013-017.

Summary

A collection of poems from 25 poets.

Contents

  • What is confidence? / Alexis D. Pepper-Smith
  • Introduction / Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Photons; Experiments in fire; Overlapping; Membership / Nicole Guenther
  • Question; Your father is not with us any longer son; Do you think; Shrunk / Chase Berggrun
  • Where I live; Borderlands, Texas; Throne; Death & taxes / Lauren Espinoza
  • Window seat 6A; Burkina faso; Invitation; Suggestion / Mackenzie Connellee
  • For my Mom; Plain stories: chronology of a cotton farmer; Christmas; Pupil / Brianne Carpenter
  • Shooting range on Mother's Day; Through the barn doors; Paynes prairie; Lesson on fire / Catherine Bates
  • Fourth or fifth love; Beside a broken-down bus on an overpass outside Philadelphia; My mother decides to seek candidacy as a Methodist minister; Growing up in woods / Mary Selph
  • Indexer in love; Many secrets of T. S. Eliot; Ode to Isabella's hair; Last words / Gray Emerson
  • Larry's produce; Fluency; Other renaissance; Rootless / Michelle Brittan
  • Tortillas; Torch; Run; Henry the horse / Henry Mills
  • First Halloween; Yogurt; Aragon; Recent poem / Emily Hendren
  • Evolution of a writer; Macaroni love; Rain, snow, and other weather; You should stop sending / Lauren Stacks
  • Belle Union, Indiana; On Sunday mornings; As far back as I can remember; Frostbite / Jonah Ogles
  • Poem for my name; Kitchen witness; To answer your questions, reportback Beirut; Prayer for a soldier back from Baghdad / Emma Shaw Crane
  • La Belle Dame Sans Merci; My mother and merlot: an un-still life; Color November: title; Sweat lodge prayer / Lauren Eriks
  • Game of table tennis, in remembrance; Veteran's Day; "Madness"; When they came to re-tar the streets / Jocelyn Stott
  • Still growing; What it is; Maple hands in a Wisconsin November, age 10; Something to balance / Anna West
  • Songs of war; To be two; Summer aches; Listen with care / Amal Khan
  • Living with a bodhisattva cat is intimidating; To my lover, who tells me he is old; My summer with the norseman; Severe / Margaret Bashaar
  • Upon arrival; Comfort poem; Falling man (and every person who jumped from the twin towers as they fell to the ground); I hear Quran / Tala Abu Rahmeh
  • Thanksgiving wishes for my grandfather; To my grandfather, a year later; To my rapist, after a tour of the lower ninth ward of New Orleans; Happiest moment of my life was when I realized I was happy / Kayla Sargeson
  • There are ghosts; Groom's man; Looking at her canvases; Finding our flag / Ben Westlie
  • Foundling; Sidewalk chalk; Ode to poetry; Dying man on a hospital bed / Matthew Baker
  • Even before you; Turning seven in the pediatrics unit; Giving tree; Dead woman left her signature in the front of my book, or what I have left / Allison Rivers
  • Double elegy; Leaving; Nothing; Egyptians / Laura Lee Beasley
  • Sacrament; Noticing the lesion; On the question of what drives coronary circulation, biology class, Morgan High School, 1999; To know the difference / Mario Chard
  • Notes on the contributors.

Added Authors

Naomi Shihab Nye

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