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: 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…) |
Selected Works3. 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 1. 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 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. |