Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom

Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom
Author: Azura Tyabji
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1638340196

2019 Button Poetry Prize Runner-Up Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom is a crossover of our coming of age universes. Exploring the interplay of adolescence and media, Dear Azula is a masterclass on how Generation Z see themselves reflected on screen, how they find themselves in characters when the world does not grant them the possibility. These poems pay homage to the cartoon characters who made us the wicked lovestruck people that we are. These ubiquitous stories of teen ghost boys and water bending women gave wonder to a generation raised by recession. In illustrious villains we learned our own glamour. In chiseled chins and 2D teeth we learned desire. In Dear Azula, I Have a Crush on Danny Phantom we bring the early 2000s renaissance of animation into our modern lives to unpack, celebrate, revel, and remember.

You Better Be Lightning

You Better Be Lightning
Author: Andrea Gibson
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1638340161

2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Gold Medal Winner 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medal Winner 2022 Over the Rainbow Short List 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist 2021 Bookshop's Indie Press Highlights You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between. One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson's trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in You Better Be Lightning, welcoming and inviting readers to be just as they are.

Clatter

Clatter
Author: Neil Hilborn
Publisher: Button Poetry
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1943735220

Clatter is a chapbook by Neil Hilborn, produced in the aftermath of his severe concussion in a bicycle accident. Written in museums, ex-girlfriends’ kitchens, and Mexico, the chapbook showcases Hilborn’s breadth of style as well as his humor, and represents a unique glimpse into the writer's early work.

St. Trigger

St. Trigger
Author: Aaron Coleman
Publisher: Button Poetry
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2020-03-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1943735158

Aaron Coleman's St. Trigger, winner of the 2015 Button Poetry Prize, investigates race and gender in contemporary America through a constantly shifting series of structures, forming its own boundaries in one poem only to break and reshape them in the next. Narrative shatters into pure lyric and reforms in an instant. Coleman's poems define themselves -- sharp and blazing and wholly new.

Blud

Blud
Author: Rachel McKibbens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2017
Genre: POETRY
ISBN: 9781556595240

"Cultural brujeria, sacrilegious litanies, ritualized births, and letters from hearts and/or brains populate Rachel McKibben's world in blud"--

swallowtail

swallowtail
Author: Brenna Twohy
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1943735735

Swallowtail, a collection of poetry by Brenna Twohy is a deep dive into the dissection of popular culture, and how the brightness and horrors of it can be mirrors into the daily lived experiences of women in America.

Death by Sex Machine

Death by Sex Machine
Author: Franny Choi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2017
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781943977383

"The girl I was ten years ago has not yet read this gorgeous, important work, but the future is closer than she thinks, and besides, this is a book that can sing through the years. You, too, need this book. When the future might feel simply cold, Franny Choi gifts us complex fire." - Lo Kwa Mei-En, author of The Bees Make Money in the Lion

Stepwell

Stepwell
Author: Azura Tyabji
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2019-05-24
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781949166019

Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Series No. 4

Today Means Amen

Today Means Amen
Author: Sierra DeMulder
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2016-02-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1449478581

Dear you: Whoever you are, However you got here, This is exactly where you are supposed to be. This moment has waited its whole life for you. These are the opening lines of "Today Means Amen," YouTube star Sierra deMulder’s immensely powerful and virally popular poem, which lends its title to this collection. Like her fellow Millennial poets Tyler Knot Gregson, Clementine von Radics, and Lang Leav, Sierra has the gift of speaking directly to the reader. “Today Means Amen” has become an anthem of sorts to thousands, who find themselves reflected in its pain, its fierceness, its tenderness — but also in its triumphant culminating refrain: You made it You made it You made it Here. The poems in Sierra's new book explore the rocky terrains of love, family, and womanhood with this same remarkable honesty and generosity. Today Means Amen brings this important young poet's work to an even broader audience.

Turning to Wallpaper

Turning to Wallpaper
Author: Heidi Wong
Publisher: Central Avenue Publishing
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1771682477

"Wear poetry as both perfume and armor." In Turning to Wallpaper, lush, elegant language contrasts with the disturbing and at times gruesome imagery to create a collection that knows exactly how to haunt the reader. Wong’s words and artistry are vibrant with color, richly textured, defiant, and unapologetic in their boldness. Her speaker undertakes a spiritual journey of remembrance that transcends body, tradition, and even nation in the pursuit of authentic art—art that is constructed using radical acceptance of the past as a means to leave it all behind. This is a story where no wounds are softened or left unconfronted. Unconcerned with conventional beauty, it is undeniably beautiful.