2018
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Cool salsa: bilingual poems on growing up Latino in the United States
Poems celebrating Hispanic culture are the focus of this collection. Topics for poems extend from hot dogs to learning English to the revolution in Nicaragua. What all of the selections have in common is the adolescent experience at the core of the poem.
El coro : a chorus of Latino and Latina poetry
El coro offers proof that Latino/a poetry today is more complex and diverse, more beautiful and powerful, than had been previously acknowledged. Here we find the open expression of anger and grief, self-mocking humor, the music of protest, the quiet assertion of dignity, and the raucous celebration of survival. There are poems about stoop labor and welfare offices and housing projects, but also poems about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Minotaur.
A Mayan astronomer in Hell's Kitchen : poems
In his sixth collection, American Book Award winner Martin Espada has created a poetic mural. There are conquerors, slaves, and rebels from Caribbean history; the "Mayan astronomer" calmly smoking a cigarette in the middle of a New York tenement fire; a nun staging a White House vigil to protest her torture; a man on death row mourning the loss of his books; and even Carmen Miranda.
Online
- U.S. Latinx Voices in Poetry From the Poetry Foundation, this collection introduces new readers to Latino and Latina poets in the United States.
- eBooks about Latino poetry14 eBooks of poetry you can read immediately through the COCC Barber Library.
Interpret Poems
- How to Read a PoemThis article from the American Academy of Poets offers tips for reading and interpreting modern poetry.
