It’s time for Season 2! We begin with the essay “Super Mario Kart” from John Green’s book, “The Anthropocene Reviewed”
We continue our celebration of Black History month with a poem from Elizabeth Alexander. Learn more about her life and work here. Here's a link to "Blues."
Here's a link to Front Desk in the libby app: https://share.libbyapp.com/title/4000868 Here's Kelly Yang's website: https://frontdeskthebook.com/books/front-desk/
Read more about Kelly Yang and her books here: https://frontdeskthebook.com/the-real-story/
Read more about Lucille Clifton and her work here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lucille-clifton
"Praise Song for the Day" is a poem written by Elizabeth Alexander for the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama. Learn more about Elizabeth Alexander and find more of her poems here.
This is our third episode with the poet Nikki Giovanni. Today's poem is called "Nikki-Rosa." Find out more about Nikki's work here.
This is our second episode with the poet Nikki Giovanni. Today's poem is called "BLK History Month," which we've been talking about. Find out more about Nikki's work here.
Welcome to second semester! It is also February and Black History Month--a time to celebrate Black culture and the people who create it. This is the first of three episodes featuring poems of Nikki Giovanni. Today's poem is "Mothers." You can learn more about Nikki Giovanni here. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikki-giovanni
I hope you enjoy this article about trees from the New York Times, "German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too" by Sally McGrane, from January 2016. Here's a link to the original article. Here's the Hidden Life of Trees audiobook link on libby. Here's the e-book version. In case the hyperlinks don't work: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/world/europe/german-forest-ranger-finds-that-trees-have-social-networks-too.html?fbclid=IwAR1VM4AZ24bfwlmSioeRvgURxBYMoYHCzCc6Xkau16J_oMSzqeAjDMD0swo https://share.libbyapp.com/title/2890481 https://share.libbyapp.com/title/2620831
The book is not in the library yet (alas! write the library and request it!) but you can learn more about Tatyana and where to get the book on her website: https://www.tatyanamcfadden.com/book
Request a paper copy of this book from your local library: https://rclreads.bibliocommons.com/item/show/721909166 Read a short history of Rondo on the mnopedia site: https://www.mnopedia.org/place/rondo-neighborhood-st-paul
Request a paper copy of this book from your local library: https://rclreads.bibliocommons.com/item/show/721909166 Read a short history of Rondo on the mnopedia site: https://www.mnopedia.org/place/rondo-neighborhood-st-paul
I couldn't find this book on Libby, sadly, but I did find this video of someone flipping through the book, which gives you a better idea what it's like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXJrD__T_UU You can also find a paper copy in the physical library: https://rclreads.bibliocommons.com/item/show/750813166 If you make a zine, I'd love to see it!!
I didn't find this book on Libby, but you can at least see what it looks like and hear from the authors here: https://www.powells.com/book/how-to-raise-a-plant-and-make-it-love-you-back-9781786273024
Find the young adult version of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson in the Libby app: https://share.libbyapp.com/title/3900668
Find the young adult version of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson in the Libby app: https://share.libbyapp.com/title/3900668
Find the book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers Edition, on Libby; https://share.libbyapp.com/title/4713957
A poem from Maggie Smith and an excerpt from Chief Crowfoot.