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."--
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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.
