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The Undisputed Greatest Writer of All Time

Author : Beau Sia
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904213
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Undisputed Greatest Writer of All Time written by Beau Sia and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the greatest fucking book of poetry ever!" is how Beau would have described this book ten years ago. In truth, this collection of poems from 1997-2005 simply reflects a time when he was wrestling with the power he'd given his ego, struggling to break from the idealizing of love, and beating himself up for his shame and insecurities. He allows us into places most poets would edit out, exposing his limitations in his choices and in what's absent from each selection. Unafraid to live in fear, willing to share the empty of glory, and pushing to include the minutia as integral parts of one's process, these poems bring a mirror to his past, sans heroic declarations and beautiful decorations. Beau Sia's new collection of old work seeks to give a fuller picture for the reader who is looking for glimpses of the dark places growth begins, and who wants to feel like they are beautiful, without having to lie in the extremes of tragedy or enlightenment. Beau Sia swings gravity like a bat (aluminum, whiffle ball, and fruit). I hope to experience everything in this life, but if I leave this world before I get to hang glide the high points, it won't matter... I read Beau Sia. -Buddy Wakefield, "Live for a Living" Beau Sia mixes serious commentary, outrageous theatrics, and downright outrage into a potent, entertaining, and memorable cocktail. He is both the spoonful of sugar and the medicine, and he goes down in the most delightful way. - Taylor Mali, "Last Time As We Are” Beau Sia has forged a poetic voice unlike any other-- a 7th level hybrid of deep-sea-mind-diving and hip-hop-spelunking and time-travel-reporting that is once riveting, humbling and inspiring; a firey worship of the life you have to live. - Mindy Nettifee, "Rise of the Trust Fall”

Live For A Living

Author : Buddy Wakefield
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904876
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Live For A Living written by Buddy Wakefield and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tender, jarring and deeply human, Live For A Living is a book of poetry that is pulsing with the same electricity and honesty found in Buddy’s live performances.” - Andrea Gibson; International Poet-Activist

Ceremony for the Choking Ghost

Author : Karen Finneyfrock
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904809
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Ceremony for the Choking Ghost written by Karen Finneyfrock and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing her sister to heart failure, Karen Finneyfrock was unable to write poems for three years. Her voice came back, whispering at first, then screaming. Ceremony for the Choking Ghost contains the sound of that voice returning, bringing poems about grief and its effect on the body, the body politic, memory and, of course, poems about love. From the intensely personal, “How My Family Grieved,” to the political, “What Lot’s Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn’t a Pillar of Salt),” Finneyfrock engages the reader with the chiseled images of a precise storyteller. Finneyfrock writes poetry with muscular verve and narrative push. The depth and breadth suggested in just a few polished images placed next to each other will make you reconsider what poetry can do. -Paul Constant, editor The Stranger If you've never enjoyed poetry once in your whole life-if even the word "poetry" makes you want to fall asleep, or die-you should read Karen Finneyfrock's new book of poetry, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost. -Paul Constant, editor The Stranger ...Finneyfrock's poems, then, are Shields's perfect novels: a shelf full of long, elaborate, heartfelt books that have been whittled down to their bare, sharp skeletons. -Paul Constant, editor “The Stranger”

Rise of the Trust Fall

Author : Mindy Nettifee
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904914
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Rise of the Trust Fall written by Mindy Nettifee and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mindy Nettifee's second book, Rise of the Trust Fall, her poems possess a magic that can only come from a seasoned writer willing to share more on the page than she’s comfortable with. Whether exploring the strange alchemy of healing, the perils of self-actualization, or the contemporary experience of womanhood, the poems in this daring collection are gorgeous and vibrant, bitingly funny, and unflinchingly honest. Rise of the Trust Fall challenges more than our understanding of ourselves. It calls us to connect to our humanity, to celebrate its flaws, and then to demand more of it, in every well crafted line. Rise of the Trust Fall by Mindy Nettifee is the linguistic orgasm we've all been waiting for, no clit-stims necessary. -BUST Magazine Mindy Nettifee is destined to be the next Dorothy Parker. -Poetic Diversity When award-winning poet Mindy Nettifee speaks...you’re powerless-you have no choice but to raise your wine glass high over your osmosis head and join her pledge of allegiance to graphic truth. Her poems have the grace of cursive letters and the guts of a truck driver. -District Weekly

These Are The Breaks

Author : Idris Goodwin
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904159
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book These Are The Breaks written by Idris Goodwin and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Are The Breaks is the debut essay collection of NEA award-winning playwright, HBO Def Poet, and critically acclaimed “indie” rapper, Idris Goodwin. Diverse in scope and wickedly satirical, Goodwin’s poetic essays sample race, class, and culture, transcending the page with hip-hop musicality. A rhythmic blend of biting wit and break-beat poetry, Goodwin’s prose pulses with purpose. Remixing broken dreams and distorted legacies, Goodwin cross-fades past and present, personal and political: Motown’s last vinyl factory juxtaposes against Bronx rap legends battling in open-air arenas; Chicago’s Public School system contrasts against Santa Fe’s tourism industry; an Egyptian child drowns in the Dead Sea as Nat Turner sprints across Death Valley. These Are The Breaks is the literary mixtape of our cacophonous times. These Are The Breaks creates a new literature entirely fresh, authentic and important. Essays from one of hip-hop’s deftest public intellectuals contributing to the fields of prose, creative memoir, race theory, and music history. -Kevin Coval, “Slingshots (A Hip-Hop Poetica) Street smart, culturally sophisticated, ironic, and iconoclastic Idris Goodwin is one of the most talented and multifaceted young artists working today. His work, like the best art practices, helps us to see what we thought was obvious in a new and different way. -Calvin Forbes, “The Shine Poems,” (A) refreshing... powerful and down-to-earth voice. -National Public Radio

Learn Then Burn

Author : Derrick Brown
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904868
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Learn Then Burn written by Derrick Brown and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the grading, and the nurturing it’s difficult to seek out new materials for your classroom. We are here to help. As poets and teachers, we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you will see the positive impact modern poetry has on our young people. It is able to engage students from any background in a way that classical poetry simply cannot touch. A complaint we’ve heard from many teachers is that they would love to use spoken word in their classrooms but they are afraid of getting in trouble with rough language and themes. So behold! We asked some of the best contemporary spoken word and slam poets to give us poems that would be appropriate for the classroom. This means you will not have to sift through this book with a highlighter to try and find the F’s and the S’s and the B’s and the Z’s. We’ve provided poems from national slam champs, world slam champs, fellow teachers, and poets we feel are the best of what’s around. We’ve also included some amazing lessons in its companion book for the teacher, sold separately.

The Constant Velocity of Trains

Author : Lea C. Deschenes
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904825
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Constant Velocity of Trains written by Lea C. Deschenes and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Lea Deschenes' collection of honest, inquisitive poetry takes readers on a tour from the front steps in her native New England to uncharted jungles and beyond the edge of the universe, accompanied by Einstein, Marcus Aurelius and Rumi. Poetically, she balances precise craft with heartfelt meaning. From studies of a culture moving at the speed of light to meditations upon capital-L Love, The Constant Velocity of Trains finds its heart in relativity: the intersecting, interlocking, and often exasperating perspectives that make up reality. Lea Deschenes is flirting with perfection. It’s taken much too long for her words to reach a larger audience, an audience that’s been searching fruitlessly for what her work has always offered – bold glimpses of what exhilarates, frightens and moves us. -Patricia Smith, “Blood Dazzler” Lea Deschenes throws the well-aimed stone of her poetry through the glass houses of hypocrisy and human coldness... she is at all times intelligent, tender, and wedded to the quest for self-knowledge...There's wisdom at work, and at play, in this book. -Alicia Ostriker, “No Heaven" every poem feels entirely free to find its own voice, its own form. ...this latest volume adds an absolute precision in charting our emotional minefields; a wisdom and a surety of touch that make these poems utterly convincing. -Jack McCarthy, “Good Night”

Don't Smell the Floss

Author : Matty Byloos
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904833
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Don't Smell the Floss written by Matty Byloos and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like pop songs that have overdosed on camera cleaning fluid and pills, Matty Byloos’s short stories are most definitely NOT traditional ideas on the subjects of love, daydreaming, and the psychological dramas that have become an unavoidable part of the human condition. Byloos, at first glance, appears to share too much; but the information is masked, skewed and filtered through a very weird, perverse universe of characters who play out human dramas underneath layers of oddity. Byloos’s characters are confused - they’re sad, they’re searching - but in those emotional states, they’re real, easily identifiable people. Byloos takes the reader behind the scenes of lives we might not normally think about (or even want to think about) but which are no less real despite their clandestine nature.

Spiking the Sucker Punch

Author : Robbie Q. Telfer
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904930
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Spiking the Sucker Punch written by Robbie Q. Telfer and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spiking the Sucker Punch, Robbie Q. Telfer's first published collection, the author profiles the modern comedian from the inside out - starting with the innards and moving toward a damaged laughter. His work blends surrealism and narrative, bending grammar and expectations along the way. These pieces interrogate identity, place, and lead the reader to a much higher understanding of bears. This gloriously bellowed lyrical and linguistic chaos, this ‘mess of crossed wires and mixed seagulls,’ will make your status quo ache, your perceptions implode, your horizons widen and shatter. -Patricia Smith, “Blood Dazzler” Robbie Q, our dazzling shooting star sparking the gritty Chicago heavens, crackling with the surprising and contradictory rhythms of life on the run and in the heat. Keep on, Brother Q, dance the dialectic, your wild inspired unruly convergence and conspiracy. -Bill Ayers, activist/educator/author In Spiking the Sucker Punch, Robbie Q. Telfer rocks out a bestiary of antic poetics all his own. In his open and generous hands, speech acts zoom in and out of our collective desire to live and love. You will feel alive again reading it. -Daniel Nester, “How to Be Inappropriate”

Yesterday Won't Goodbye

Author : Brian S. Ellis
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935904132
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Yesterday Won't Goodbye written by Brian S. Ellis and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian S. Ellis' second book, Yesterday Won't Goodbye, explores the author’s wild origins and punk rock Americana in powerful poetic form. Brian Stephen Ellis is borne of Gelfling and gutter punk. Unwashable stain ...His poems speak with an unbridled urgency yet come to you patient, coy, brimming with wisdom-and acutely aware of their own necessity. Read these poems. You've never been so alive." -Jeanann Verlee, "Racing Hummingbirds" ...Ellis expertly shifts between free verse poetry and creative non-fiction, consistently producing work that is captivating and original, all while having one of the most dynamic, affective, and unapologetically raw live performances anywhere. -Jared Paul, "Prayers For Atheist"

Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone

Author : Annelyse Gelman
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1938912950
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone written by Annelyse Gelman and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look, the future is all telepathy and disappointment and pretending we haven't always been winging it. Every day we're the strongest we'll ever be. What doesn't kill you hasn't killed you yet. From Greek mythology to Top 40, Pavlov to Sartre, the space station to the zoo, "Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone" collides dark humor and unexpected sweetness.

Some of the Children Were Listening

Author : Lauren Sanderson
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1949342050
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Some of the Children Were Listening written by Lauren Sanderson and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical and dark, Lauren Sanderson’s Some of the Children Were Listening begins with witness. With a voice uncommonly young and impossibly certain, these poems climb out of bed and sit on the stairs, eavesdropping on a world that wasn’t meant for them. In quick turns and tight threads comes the violence of nature, the nature of violence. Sanderson moves fluidly across the personal and the universal, venturing into a world beyond witness; where the trees fall when the girls scream and everyone’s daughter is a king.

Rise Up!

Author : Linda Katz, MSW
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1564748081
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Rise Up! written by Linda Katz, MSW and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of an ethnically and racially diverse classroom of funny, endearing, and often poignant six-year-olds in a Seattle inner-city elementary school. The author, their volunteer literary coach, describes the classroom, their heroic teacher, a number of clever teaching modules, and the evolution of this school toward excellence. The children’s confidences, essays, and poetry sparkle with humor, and the unexpected viewpoints of childhood. Eight captivating students are profiled and featured for us in line drawing illustrations. In the final chapters some startling school district data is introduced as well as three common-sense recommendations to give all kids a fair chance in school. Having learned so much about the realities of public elementary education in her five years in the classroom, the author wanted to share the good news of what is possible with others who might otherwise view this as a grim subject.

What the Night Demands

Author : Miles Walser
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1938912179
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book What the Night Demands written by Miles Walser and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miles Walser unearths the concept of the binary in his long-awaited first poetry collection. While Walser's lionhearted deconstruction of gender tackles trans identity in a way no living poet has before, he also dismantles other alleged dichotomies such as loneliness and introversion, softness and rage, mathematics and art. He acknowledges the existence of all these 'opposites' and their place inside the author. Walser bares so much of his many-hued self that the reader can't help but turn inwards. The reader does not simply watch the author bloom in these poems but the open-minded reader is bound to bloom also.

We Will Be Shelter

Author : Andrea Gibson
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1949342204
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book We Will Be Shelter written by Andrea Gibson and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Will be Shelter, edited by poet and activist Andrea Gibson, is an anthology of contemporary poems that addresses issues of social justice. Unique to this anthology is its focus on creating positive social change through gorgeous, gusty poetry. Alongside and embedded in featured poems are concrete ways to address social and political issues raised. The goal of We Will be Shelter is to raise awareness, encourage critical self-reflection, and call readers to action.

Floating, Brilliant, Gone

Author : Franny Choi
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1938912942
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Floating, Brilliant, Gone written by Franny Choi and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her electrifying debut, Franny Choi leads readers through the complex landscapes of absence, memory, and identity. Beginning in loss and ending in reflective elation, Floating, Brilliant, Gone explores life as a brief impossibility, “infinite / until it isn’t.” Punctuated with haunting illustrations by Jess X. Chen, Choi’s poems read like lucid dreams that jolt awake at the most unexpected moments.

Lessons on Being Tenderheaded

Author : Janae Johnson
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1949342476
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Lessons on Being Tenderheaded written by Janae Johnson and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Janae Johnson's debut poetry collection, the concept of being tenderheaded is less about Black hair; more how we are taught to disguise pain through suppression of macro and micro traumas. What began as a book of poetry about women's basketball transformed into a coming-of-age story centering Black queer masculinity, emotional restoration and belonging. From lyrically experimental to personified prose, each poem encourages humor to rise after an eight hour hair appointment and the ultimate decision to wear a ponytail.