Poetry among the ALA Awards

I was in Philadelphia last year for the American Library Association midwinter conference and was in the room on Monday when they announced all the big awards-- such a fun, electric morning! And as usual, I like to celebrate the works of poetry that are among the award winners. So, here you go: 

John Newbery Medal is given to the most outstanding contribution to children's literature.

Newbery Honor Books: 

The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga (Balzer + Bray/ HarperCollins Publishers)

Randolph Caldecott Medal is given to the most distinguished American picture book for children.

The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award Winner:

The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Michael L. Printz Award is for excellence in literature written for young adults

Printz Honor Book: 

Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes (Wordsong/Boyds Mills & Kane)

Odyssey Award goes to the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.

Odyssey Honor Audiobooks:

Redwood and Ponytail produced by Hachette Audio, written by K.A. Holt and narrated by Cassandra Morris and Tessa Netting

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga produced by Live Oak Media, written by Traci Sorell and narrated by Lauren Hummingbird, Agalisiga (Choogie) Mackey, Ryan Mackey, Traci Sorell, Tonia Weavel

The Pura Belpré Awards honor a Latino writer and illustrator whose children's books best portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience.
The Pura Belpré Illustrator Award

Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Rafael López (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award is for the most distinguished informational book for children.
Sibert Winner:

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard and illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal (Roaring Brook Press) 

Sibert Honor Book:

Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes (Wordsong/Boyds Mills & Kane)

The American Indian Youth Literature award is announced in even years and established to identify and honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians. The award is administered by the American Indian Library Association (AILA), an affiliate of the American Library Association. 

Picture Book Honors: 

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard (Seminole Nation, Mekusukey Band), illustrated by Juana Martínez-Neal (Peruvian-American) (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan)

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell (Cherokee), illustrated by Frané Lessac (Charlesbridge) 
At the Mountain’s Base by Traci Sorell (Cherokee), illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva/Scots-Gaelic) (Kokila/Penguin Random House)

[This one is NOT poetry, but I have to include it, because this is the award committee that I was fortunate to chair this year. I had a lovely committee and we are so pleased with our choice.] 

Children’s Literature Legacy Award honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children through books that demonstrate integrity and respect for all children’s lives and experiences. The 2020 winner is Kevin Henkes, whose award-winning works include Kitten’s First Full Moon which won the Caldecott Award in 2005 and The Year of Billy Miller, recipient of a Newbery Honor in 2014. In addition, Henkes has received two Geisel honors, two Caldecott honors and a second Newbery honor.

Now head on over to Jone's place where she is gathering all the Poetry Friday goodness. 

Live in the Layers

Searching for poems this past week to use in our upcoming prompts, I came upon Stanley Kunitz's poem "The Layers." It is a poem I have read often and heard him read in person. It is a poem that invites multiple readings and - like Kunitz himself - "Though I lack the art / to decipher it" fully, I continue to try.

...In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
and I roamed through wreckage,
a nimbus-clouded voice
directed me:
"Live in the layers,
not on the litter."
Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
is already written.
I am not done with my changes.

I don't know that Stanley would have agreed with me, but the layers and litter of the poem always make me think of the garden and my compost pile. "Leaf litter" is the leaves, twigs and pieces of bark that have fallen to the ground and make up an important component of healthy soil. Stanley was well known for his gardening and I'm sure his compost pile was an important part of it. Compost is itself a place of transformation. There are creatures that live in the litter and the litter certainly encourages life and growth.

But that voice from the clouds advises not to live in the litter but in the layers.

Yesterday, I took the photo shown at the top of this post because it looked like the clouds were in layers. If the litter is the earth, then there are many layers above it going up into the sky and far beyond our own planet.

Listen to Stanley read the poem, and if you have your own interpretation, please post a comment here.

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Opening Emily Dickinson

We know Emily's poems. Emily didn't write prose. No notebooks, journals or diaries. Well, wait - she wrote letters. Lots of them.

If you're looking for who Emily Dickinson really "is" I think you will find it in the letters - when you read them along with the poems.

I remember reading Emily's poems in high school. My impression of her (bolstered by that one sad photo) was of a hermit, virgin who had a sad life spent mostly in her room, house and garden. Poor little Em.

I didn't really like Emily's poems back then. I like them a lot more now, but that came through learning more about her. I know I'm not supposed to enjoy poems more because I like the poet, but that's what has happened. I seem to write a lot here about Emily and her writing.

There is more joy and life in her letters. She's not the lonely spinster in many of those letters. There is life, love and passion.

There are a number of collections of her letters including multi-volume sets like one facsimile set published by Forgotten Books and also shorter edited (and sometimes censored) selected letters.

The letters that interest me most - and are getting more attention lately - are ones to Susan. Those letters record a thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend and neighbor, Susan Gilbert, who would later be her sister-in-law, Susan Dickinson.

There is a good introduction to the Susan and Emily relationship in a post on BrainPickings. I read through the single volume collection of these letters titled Open Me Carefully. These are not censored and so offer a different Emily Dickinson and her letters (also some poems) to Sue, Susan, Susie.

Show me Eternity, and I will show you Memory —Both in one package lainAnd lifted back again —Be Sue — while I am Emily —Be next — what you have ever been — Infinity.

Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson  is a new book that shines a new light to Emily. Not a lonely spinster in her letters which are presented here without much commentary. They speak for themselves.

"... unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters' genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page." - Renee Tursi, The New York Times Book Review

There have been several modern screen versions of a more passionate Emily Dickinson. The latest one is an original on the new Apple+ channel called Dickinson. It is a historical period comedy-drama series that stars Hailee Steinfeld as Emily. It explores Emily's love for Susan Gilbert. The first season was released in November 2019 and a second season will follow.

In a letter to Susan:

I need you more and more, and the great world grows wider . . . every day you stay away — I miss my biggest heart; my own goes wandering round, and calls for Susie… Susie, forgive me Darling, for every word I say — my heart is full of you . . . yet when I seek to say to you something not for the world, words fail me… I shall grow more and more impatient until that dear day comes, for til now, I have only mourned for you; now I begin to hope for you.

Now, farewell, Susie . . . I add a kiss, shyly, lest there is somebody there! Don’t let them see, will you Susie?

And finally, in a mix of Emily's poems and letters, there are her poems written on envelopes which were finally published as The Gorgeous Nothings. This is a full-color facsimile edition of the envelope poems. There are 52 envelope poems.

                   

PHOTO USED ABOVE IN SECTIONS: Daguerreotype of Emily Dickinson taken at Mt. Holyoke in December 1847 or early 1848

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Into the Glittering White Snow

Back in 2015, we based a writing prompt on the poem "Shoveling Snow With Buddha" by Billy Collins. It's snowing outside my window today and I was rereading that poem.

I like this Buddha being in a situation that's a bit odd. This is not a seated and meditative Buddha. And I don't think of Buddha in the snow - even though my garden Buddha is being covered with snow beside the St. Francis statue. They seem quite comfortable with each other. They don't seem to mind the cold and snow. They really enjoy it when I sprinkle birdseed around them and the little birds hop in the snow to eat.

When I head outside today to shovel some snow, I'd like to think that I can take Buddha with me. He's in my mind but he's not in my mind. Shoveling snow can certainly be an exercise in mindfulness.

I know from the poem not to talk to him out there.

This is so much better than a sermon in church,
I say out loud, but Buddha keeps on shoveling.
This is the true religion, the religion of snow,
and sunlight and winter geese barking in the sky,
I say, but he is too busy to hear me.

Why be quiet? Because:

He has thrown himself into shoveling snow
as if it were the purpose of existence,
as if the sign of a perfect life were a clear driveway
you could back the car down easily
and drive off into the vanities of the world
with a broken heater fan and a song on the radio.

Soon, outside to shovel snow with Buddha.  And then, with my boots dripping by the door, some hot chocolate.

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Seduced By Statistics.

It is easy to be seduced by statistics. I know several friends who have websites and blogs and are rather obsessed with their web statistics. They are always checking to see how many hits the site gets or what pages or posts are most popular or what search terms are being used to find them. Social media has encouraged this with Likes and Retweets and Reposts. Our smartphones love to send us notifications that someone has engaged with some piece of our content.

I got this alert last month about this blog:

Your page is trending up

Your page clicks increased by more than 1,000% over the usual daily average of less than 1 click.

https://poetsonline.blogspot.com/2010/12/moving-into-winter-solstice-poems.html

Possible explanations for this trend could be:

• Modifications you did to your page's content.
• Increased interest in a trending topic covered by the page.

Of course, I am happy that people found this post from 2010 and are still reading it and hopefully enjoying it. Google's "possible explanations" for this are both correct, as I did update the page last month and the topic of the Winter Solstice was probably trending across the web as we slipped into the new season.

I do glance at my websites' analytics occasionally. I have ten sites and blogs that I do, so it can't be a very regular thing. I do like to look at the end of the year at each of them to see what has been happening. I also have a half dozen clients that I do websites for and they are always interested in their stats.

What did I learn this year about this blog and its main website at /poetsonline.org? One big takeaway is that people are more likely to find this blog than find the website. In fact, people tend to find the monthly writing prompt on this blog rather than on the main website. For that reason, I have tried to make the blog version of the prompts a bit more expansive - more examples, images, links.

One issue that came up with the website this year is that since Google has demoted "insecure" websites that still have an http at the front of their address rather than an https, ("s" for "secure") some people can't access the website anymore. I could make the website be S secure but that costs money and since Poets Online is a non-profit that actually loses money each year, I don't really want to lose more money.

There is no business plan for Poets Online. I had always hoped that if people clicked on any of the Amazon book links on this blog or on the website when they shopped that those pennies would add up to enough to cover web costs - but that has never happened. Still, it would be great if you did use the Poets Online link to shop at Amazon.com for books or anything. It doesn't cost you anything extra and a very small percent is passed on to us.

Poets should not be seduced by statistics. It's nice to know that people are reading your poems or buying your books but if number s and dollars are your intention in being a poet, you're in the wrong vocation.

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Sneak Peek list for 2020

It's time again to share my "sneak peek" list of the poetry for young people that is due to be published this year. As usual, please let me know about any titles that I may have missed or any errors I have made here. I've made a broad sweep and included anthologies, poetry picture books, and novels in verse. I've even included books that gather poems alongside other things like stories and art. But I have not include rhyming picture books (because there are so many of them!). I'll revise and expand this list all year long, so check back any time. There's a link to this list in the sidebar too. (I can't believe I've been creating a "sneak peek" list for more than TEN YEARS now! Wow!) Here's to another year full of wonderful work! 

2020 Sneak Peek List

1. Abery, Julie. 2020. Yusra Swims. Ill. by Sally Deng. Minneapolis: Creative Editions.
2. Acevedo, Elizabeth. 2020. Clap When You Land. New York: HarperCollins. 
3. Arndt, Michael. 2020. Thoughts Are Air. Ill. by Irena Freitas. New York: Dial. 
4. Atkins, Jeannine. 2020. Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math. New York: Atheneum. 
5. Beck-Jacobson, Darlene. 2020. Wishes, Dares and How to Stand Up to a Bully. Berkeley, CA: Creston.
6. Berne, Jennifer. 2020. On Wings of Words: The Extraordinary Life of Emily Dickinson. Ill. by Becca Stadtlander. San Francisco: Chronicle.  
7. Bogart, Jo Ellen. 2020. Little Blue House Beside the Sea. Ill. by Carme Lemniscates. Thomaston, ME: Tilbury House. 
8. Bowling, Dusti. 2020. The Canyon’s Edge. New York: Little, Brown. 
9. Bradley, Jeanette; Dawson, Keila V. and Metcalf, Lindsay H. Eds. 2020. Taking the Mic. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge.
10. Brantley-Newton, Vanessa. 2020. Just Like Me. New York: Knopf. 
11. Browne, Mahogany L. 2020. Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice. New York: Roaring Brook Press. 
12. Bulion, Leslie. 2020. Amphibian Acrobats. Ill. by Robert Meganck. Atlanta: Peachtree. 
13. Caprara, Rebecca. 2020. Worst-Case Collin. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge. 
14. Chang, Victoria. 2020. Love, Love. New York: Sterling. 
15. Culley, Betty. 2020. Three Things I Know Are True. New York: HarperCollins. 
16. Davies, Jacqueline. 2020. Bubbles…UP! New York: HarperCollins. 
17. Donwerth-Chikamatsu, Annie. 2020. Beyond Me. New York: Caitlyn Diouhy/Atheneum.
18. DuBois, Caroline Brooks. 2020. The Places We Sleep. New York: Holiday House. 
19. Elliott, David. 2020. In the Woods. Somerville, MA: Candlewick.
20. Elliott, Zetta. 2020. Say Her Name. Ill. by Love is Wise. New York: Jump at the Sun. 
21. Engle, Margarita. 2020. A Song of Frutas. Ill. by Sara Palacios. New York: Atheneum. 
22. Engle, Margarita. 2020. With a Star in My Hand. Ill. by Rubén Darío. New York: Atheneum. 
23. Fipps, Lisa. 2020. Starfish. New York: Penguin/Nancy Paulsen Books. 
24. Frost, Helen. 2020. All He Knew. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 
25. Frost, Helen. 2020. Blue Daisy. Ill. by Rob Shepperson. New York: Holiday House.
26. Gansworth, Eric. 2020. Apple: Skin to the Core. New York: Levine Querido. 
27. Gianferrari, Maria. 2020. Whoo-Ku Haiku: A Great Horned Owl Story. Ill. by Jonathan Voss. New York: Putnam. 
28. Grehan, Meg. 2020. The Deepest Breath. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 
29. Harrison, David. 2020. After Dark. Ill. by Stephanie Laberis. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills & Kane/Wordsong.   
30. Hill, Skip. 2020. How to Tie a Shoe. Oklahoma City, OK: Penny Candy. 
31. Holt, K. A. 2020. Ben Bee and theTeacher Griefer. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 
32. Hopkins, Ellen. 2020. Closer to Nowhere. New York: Putnam.
33. Hopkins, Lee Bennett. Ed. 2020. Construction People. Ill. by Ellen Shi. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills & Kane/Wordsong.   
34. Iloh, Candace. 2020. Ada. New York: Dutton. 
35. James, Nancy Johnson. 2020. Brown. Ill. by Constance Moore. Cameron Kids. 
36. Jensen, Kelly. Ed. 2020. Body Talk. New York: Algonquin. 
37. Johnson, Aimee Hagerty. 2020. The Fir and I. Boston: Page Street Kids. 
38. Johnson, Angela. 2020. A Girl Like Me. Ill. by Nina Crews. Brookfield, CT: Lerner/Millbrook. 
39. Jules, Jacqueline. 2020. Tag Your Dreams: Poems of Play and Persistence. Ill. by Iris Deppe. Chicago: Albert Whitman. 
40. Latham, Irene and Waters, Charles. 2020. Dictionary for a Better World. Ill. by Mehrdokht Amini. Brookfield, CT: Lerner. 
41. Latham, Irene. 2020. Nine: A Book of Nonet Poems. Ill. by Amy Huntington. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge. 
42. Latham, Irene. 2020. This Poem Is a Nest. Ill. by Johanna Wright. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills & Kane/Wordsong.   
43. Lewis, J. Patrick. 2020. Always, Jackie. Ill. by John Thompson. Minneapolis: Creative Editions. 
44. Lowry, Lois. 2020. On the Horizon. Ill. by Kenard Pak. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 
45. Lyon, George Ella. 2020. Voices of Justice. Ill. by Jennifer Potter. New York: Holt. 
46. Madan, Vikram. 2020. A Hatful of Dragons: And 13.8 Billion Other Funny Poems. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills & Kane/Wordsong.  
47. Maddox, Marjorie. 2020. I'm Feeling Blue, Too. Ill. by Philip Huber. Wipf & Stock.
48. Maddox, Marjorie. 2020. Inside Out: Poems on Reading and Writing Poems. Kelsay Books. 
49. Maizes, Sarah. 2020. Atticus Caticus. Ill. by Kara Kramer. Somerville, MA: Candlewick. 
50. Marroquin, M.L. 2020. Hair. Ill. by Tonya Engel. Boston: Page Street Kids. 
51. Mateer, Trista. 2020. When the Stars Wrote Back. New York: Random House. 
52. Moore, Clement C. 2020. ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. Ill. by Loren Long. New York: HarperCollins. 
53. Murphy, Sally. 2020. Worse Things. 
54. Nye, Naomi Shihab. 2020. Cast Away: Poems for Our Time. New York: Greenwillow.
55. Robillard, Evie. 2020. A Portrait in Poems: The Storied Life of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Ill. by Rachel Katstaller. New York: Kids Can Press. 
56. Salazar, Aida. 2020. The Land of the Cranes. New York: Scholastic. 
57. Keller, Shana. 2020. Fly, Firefly. Ill. by Ramona Kaulitzki. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear. 
58. Sidman, Joyce. 2020. Hello, Earth! Poems to Our Planet. Ill. by Mira Asiain Lora. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
59. Silverman, Buffy. 2020. On a Snow-Melting Day: Seeking Signs of Spring. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook.
60. Singer, Marilyn. 2020. Follow the Recipe: Poems about Imagination, Celebration, and Cake. Ill. by Marjorie Priceman. New York: Dial. 
61. Slade, Suzanne. 2020. Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Ill. by Cozbi A. Cabrera. New York: Abrams. 
62. Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Ed. 2020. [Untitled powwow anthology]. New York: HarperCollins. 
63. Solter, Sonja. 2020. When You Know What I Know. New York: Little, Brown. 
64. Stein, Gertrude. 2020. A Little Called Pauline. Ill. by Bianca Stone. Oklahoma City, OK: Penny Candy. 
65. Stevenson, Robert Louis. 2020. Where Go the Boats? Ill. by Chris Sheban. Minneapolis: Creative Editions. 
66. Stohler, Lauren. 2020. The Best Worst Poet Ever. New York: Atheneum.
67. Tellegen, Toon. 2020. I Wish. Ill. by Ingrid Godon. Translated by David Colmer. Brooklyn, NY: Elsewhere Editions. 
68. VanDerwater, Amy Ludwig. 2020. Write! Write! Write! Ill. by Ryan O’Rourke. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills & Kane/Wordsong.   
69. Vecchione, Patrice. 2020. My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice: A Poetry Writing Resource for Speaking In and Speaking Out. New York: Seven Stories/Triangle Square. 
70. Weatherford, Carole Boston. 2020. Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom. Ill. by Michele Wood. Somerville, MA: Candlewick. 
71. Weatherford, Carole Boston. 2020. By and By, Charles Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music. Ill. by Bryan Collier. New York: Atheneum. 
72. Weatherford, Carole Boston. 2020. RESPECT: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul. Ill. by Frank Morrison. New York: Atheneum. 
73. White, Dianne. 2020. Green on Green. Ill. by Felicita Sala. New York: Beach Lane Books. 
74. White, Dianne. 2020. Walls. Ill. by Barroux. Toronto: Owl Kids. 
75. Whitman, Walt. 2020. The World Below the Brine. Ill. by Jim Carroll. Minneapolis: Creative Editions. 
76. Wiles, Deborah. 2020. Kent State. New York: Scholastic.
77. Wolf, Allan. 2020. The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party. Somerville, MA: Candlewick.
78. Yolen, Jane. 2020. Emily Writes: Emily Dickinson and Her Poetic Beginnings. Ill. by Christine Davenier. New York: Macmillan/Henry Holt/Ottaviano. 

Here's a little bonus video featuring the book covers of many of these new and forthcoming poetry titles for 2020. Can't wait to read them all!

           


           

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Love Poetry in Urdu Latest and Amazing Collection 2020

Love Poetry in Urdu

نہ کوئی سمت، نہ منزل

نہ کوئی سمت، نہ منزل، نہ جستجو، نہ جنوں

میں اُس کے شہر سے نکلا تو ہر طرف پہنچا

Love Quotes in Urdu

ادھوری محبت

میں تو اب نام کا ہی آتش رہ گیا ہوں

لوگ تو مجھے جلا جاتے ہیں

Love Shayari Urdu

بیمار بیٹھا ہوں

ہر دوا سے کچھ یوں بیزار بیٹھا ہوں

میں تیرے ہجر میں بیمار بیٹھا ہوں

ہر شخص ہے حیرت زدہ میری حالت پہ

میں اپنی بربادی پہ خوش حال بیٹھا ہوں

کیوں نہ ہو تبسم میرے چہرے کی زینت

میں بھی تو غموں کے لیے امبر بیٹھا ہوں

لوگ کہتے ہیں میرے الفاظ میں وزن نہیں عزیز

میں کسے کہوں میں اپنے ہی لفظوں سے ہار بیٹھا ہوں

Romantic Poetry in Urdu

سنا ھے وہ مجھ سے بچھڑ کے میرے جیسا ہوگیا ھے

سنا ھے وہ مجھ سے بچھڑ کے میرے جیسا ہوگیا ہے

بولتا کم ہے،، سنتا۔۔ زیادہ ہے، کہتا کچھ بھی نہیں

Sad Shayari in Urdu, Romantic poetry SMS, Beautiful Urdu poetry SMS

Itna Qareeb Aao K Ji Bhar K Dekh Lein,

Shayad K Phir Milo To Ye Zoq-e-Nazar Na Ho,

Aaye Ho Ab K Jo Tum To Aik Shab Qayaam Kr Lo,

Shayad K Phir Guzr Ho To Mera Ghar Na Ho,

Mumkin Ha K Tarteeb-e-Waqt Main Aisa B Lamha Aaye,

K Dastak Ko Tera Hath Uthe Or Mera Dar Na Ho

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Rukhsat Karne Ke Adab Nibhane Hi The

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