Featured Poet: Reginald Asangba Taluah
To watch Taluah perform his poem go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOkUvqkLrO8
Reginald Asangba Taluah’s poem “A Voice from Within” begins with an invocation in the tradition of song from the Upper East Region of Ghana. He likes to remind people that “in some African languages mere conversations stand as poetry and tno to mention the occasions when the drums, (more…)
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Ghana Poetry ProjectFeatured Poet: Nii Lantey LampteyMarch 27, 2009
Ghana Poetry Project
Featured Poet: Nii Lantey Lamptey To watch Nii Lantey Lamptey recite "Obunkutu," go to the YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd0iHifYeZ0 When Nii Lantey recited his poem “Obunkutu” last fall at the University of Legon , the entire audience cheered. Nii explains that “Obunkutu is a sacred appellation to warriors about to embark on a war (more…) Featured Poet: Rhyme Sunny Reciting "Rose"March 18, 2009
Ghana Poetry Project
Featured Poet: Spoken Word Poet Rhyme Sunny Reciting “Rose” Watch Rhyme Sunny on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnZrdcpyC4M When I heard Rhyme Sunny recite his poem “Rose,” I was delighted by how he stepped into a long tradition of working the rose as a trope for love and relationships, but found something fresh and original in Rhyme Sunny’s poem. (more…) Featured Poet: Novisi DzitrieMarch 6, 2009
The Ghana Poetry Project
Featured Poet: Novisi Dzitrie reading “Ol’ Driver Grand-Papa” To watch this video go to YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1GS2B6M_Cw Novisi Dzitrie comments on his own work and on poetry in Ghana: As a young poet I feel there is a generational gap so far as the literary scene and the poetry scene for that matter in Ghana is concerned in that (more…) Featured Poets: Crystal Tettey and BlackFebruary 19, 2009
The Ghana Poetry Project
Featured Poets: Crystal Tettey and Black Watch Crystal Tettey "There Are Still Kids" and then Black riff on the refrain from the poem on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g1m2KrqPPE The two performances by Crystal Tettey and Black offer a fascinating interaction and collaboration between two (more…) Featured Poets: Mariska Taylor-DarkoJanuary 27, 2009
To watch Mariska Taylor-Darko read "I Love Ghana" go the the YouTube link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkLP6V3C414&feature=channel_page Mariska Taylor-Darko’s “I Love Ghana” resonates with the same kind of expansiveness as the poems of Walt Whitman. Taylor-Darko’s (more…) |
Selected Works1. Nonfiction
DJ Kool Herc
The first picturebook biography of the founder of rap and hip hop, DJ Kool Herc! America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the 60s
"Phenomenal."–Howard Zinn "Excellent."–New York Times Book Review Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
“Harlem Stomp! is a wonderous new book: it celebrates a time, a place, an energy, and a people who refused to be held back and so they created a culture the entire world is still reeling from.” --George C. Wolfe, writer, director, and producer of the Public Theater, NYC 3. Poetry
Dave the Potter
A picturebook poem describing the life of the slave potter Dave. Illustrated by Bryan Collier. Contemporary Poetry of New England
“Contemporary Poetry of New England offers a vivid portrait of a region, its colors and smells, its physical and emotional textures, and the people…. It presents a range of poets, few of whom would call themselves a “region poet,” although each has taken to heart in a private way Frost’s haunting dictum: ‘Locality gives art.’” --from the Introduction 2. Fiction
A Brush with Napoleon
A seventeen-year-old is plucked out of the Grande Armee to sit in place of Napoleon for a portrait of the Emperor by the artist David. Casa Azul
"I felt like a kid reading every word on the page! I liked the strains of "magic realism" coming through in Frida's house! Children will relate to this very much! The story is charming and reads like a thriller." –Margarita Aguilar, Assisant Curator, El Museo del Barrio 4. Middle Grade Series
Xtreme Mysteries
These kids love extreme sports--snowboarding, skateboarding, rock climbing, wake boarding--and are ready to fight when the right to do their sport is threatened. |