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Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] POETRY
From: "janet@janetwong.com" <janet@janetwong.com>
Date: Thu, April 03, 2014 7:26 pm
To: CCBC-Net Network <ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu>

Lee is so right to highlight the special qualities of anthologies--and his anthologies, in particular, have always been extra-special because of the way new and old poets, famous and not, funny and serious, and loud and soft voices all "mingle" on the pages. Sylvia Vardell and I aim in our books to follow Lee's example in presenting diverse voices, styles, and subjects.

And Lee is also right that there are very few anthologies nowadays--but happily there were a few more than two last year. Here are some additional 2013 titles that some people hopefully will be interested in:

INDIVISIBLE: Poems for Social Justice

edited by Gail Bush and Randy Meyer (Norwood House, 2013)

http://www.amazon.com/Indivisible-Poems-Social-Justice-Na/dp/1603574174/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396564206&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=poems+about+race+gail+bush

POETRY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY 

edited by Arnold Rampersad and Marcellus Blount, illustrated by Karen Barbour (Sterling, 2013)

http://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Young-People-African-American/dp/1402716893/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396565580&sr=1-8&keywords=arnold+rampersad

and--please forgive this mention--there was also this book last year, included on the just-released NCTE Poetry Notables list (see the current SLJ):

THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL 

edited by Sylvia Vardell and me (Pomelo Books, 2013)

110 poems by 71 poets (282 pages)

For this year, there will also be more than two anthologies. 

Last month THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY FOR SCIENCE was published--and it is the Poetry Foundation's Children's Poet Laureate "Pick of the Month" for April.

218 poems by 78 poets

308 pages in the K-5 Teacher's Edition

60 pages in each grade-level edition (K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_15?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=poetry+friday+anthology+for+science&sprefix=poetry+friday+a%2Caps%2C146

Can we use more anthologies? You bet! But as Jane and Lee have commented, anthologies are expensive to produce and need to sell a lot of copies to recoup costs.

One easy way that this can happen is if teachers and librarians put a few anthologies on their Summer Reading lists--please do so, if you can. Maybe this recent favorite?

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOOK OF ANIMAL POETRY: 200 Poems with Photographs that Squeak, Soar, and Roar!

edited by J. Patrick Lewis (National Geographic, 2012)

192 pages

http://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Book-Animal-Poetry/dp/1426310099/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396567212&sr=1-1&keywords=national+geographic+book+of+animal+poetry

Thank you,

Janet

janet@janetwong.com

info@pomelobooks.com

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