You don't have to be everything poems for girls becoming themselves
"A contemporary poetry anthology that offers girls and young women wisdom and compassion for a vital, formative time in their lives."--
| Other Authors: | Whitney, Diana, 1973- (Editor), González, Cristina (Illustrator) (Illustrator), Mockford, Kate (Illustrator), Singleton, Stephanie (Illustrator) (Illustrator) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Workman Publishing,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Seeking
- Loneliness
- Attitude
- Rage
- Longing
- Shame
- Sadness
- Belonging.
- Final exam Stephanie /
- Stephanie Burt
- Origin/adoption /
- Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello
- Flying inside your own body /
- Margaret Atwood
- Questions for Google /
- Elizabeth Spires
- The year I tell my parents I am a homosexual /
- Sahar Romani
- Bike ride with older boys /
- Laura Kasischke
- Away from home /
- Paige Buffington
- On crescents & transition & waning /
- Kayleb Rae Candrilli
- Lost & found /
- Amy Dryansky
- Playing hide and seek /
- Wendy Guerra
- Questions asked to me when I was ten /
- S. Erin Batiste
- Solitude /
- Franny Choi
- Night before first day of school /
- Elizabeth Acevedo
- Growing up /
- Melody Lee
- With pretty legs /
- Talin Tahajian
- Insomnia /
- Jane Kenyon
- self-portraiture /
- Fariha Róisín
- How to triumph like a girl /
- Ada Limón
- Black daughter's pointillism /
- Amanda Gorman
- I've been known /
- Denise Duhamel
- homage to my hips /
- Lucille Clifton
- she plays hockey on a boy's team /
- Clara Bush Vadala
- in critique of modesty /
- Angélica María Aguilera
- "What do women want?" /
- Kim Addonizio
- Confession /
- Leila Chatti
- Phenomenal woman /
- Maya Angelou
- Harder /
- Melissa Stein
- On Anger /
- Rage Hezekiah
- The period poem /
- Dominique Christina
- And if by invisibility /
- Tamiko Beyer
- Ones who got away with it /
- Bianca Stone
- Rehearsal /
- Sara Peters
- Self-portrait as wounded doe of Artemis /
- Aria Aber
- Self-portrait as mango /
- Tarfia Faizullah
- Fast gas /
- Dorianne Laux
- Practicing /
- Marie Howe
- Meditations in an emergency /
- Cameron Awkward-Rich
- Oh God /
- Michelle Tea
- On the discomfort of being in the same room as the boy you like /
- Sarah Kay
- coming of age /
- Evie Shockley
- Wanting it /
- Diana Whitney
- Song to Elise /
- Holly Burdorff
- But they say I will not make it /
- Rachel Wiley
- I go back to May 1937 /
- Sharon Olds
- Ode to gossips /
- Safia Elhillo
- Wolf and woman /
- Nikita Gill
- Sonnet for a dollar /
- Natalie Scenters-Zapico
- Why I hate raisins /
- Natalie Diaz
- When the fat girl gets skinny /
- Blythe Baird
- The mockers /
- Mary Meriam
- "Is there something I should know?" /
- Brenda Shaughnessy
- Landscape with clinic and oracle /
- Lynn Melnick
- What to say to a friend who wants to give up /
- JP Howard
- Rearview mirror : February /
- Alison Prine
- Skinning ghosts alive /
- Alison C. Rollins
- Event horizon /
- Leslie Maria Aguilar
- What you mourn /
- Sheila Black
- No filter /
- Andrea Gibson
- Night bloom /
- Crystal Williams
- I will practice self-talk /
- M. J. Fievre
- Wild geese /
- Mary Oliver
- The rider /
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Survival guide /
- Joy Ladin
- dancing with my mother at a cousin's bat mitzvah /
- Maya Stein
- For my daughter on a bad day /
- Kate Baer
- Love arrived may find us someplace else /
- July Westhale
- Flowers #3 /
- Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
- For keeps /
- Joy Harjo
- The poets
- The illustrators.