Marlena Myles

May 5, 2024 | hbook.com | Marilyn Nelson |Noah Van Sciver |Marlena Myles

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Apr 2, 2024 | hbook.com | Shoshana Flax |Marilyn Nelson |Noah Van Sciver |Marlena Myles

It’s not just for nurseries. It’s not just for rhymes. It’s stories. It’s feelings. It’s wonders and crimes. Poetry’s for you. You read it. You hear it. You rap or you slam. So be into meter (as iamb, iamb!)—jump into the bounce that a pattern contains—or throw out the structure if structure constrains. The point of a poem is not to cause pains!It’s to speak. To express. To a page. To a crowd. “Can it be about—”Anything. Yup. That’s allowed.

Aug 8, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Noah Van Sciver |Marlena Myles |Caroline Leavitt |Ian Phillips

The Paul Bunyan tall tale gets felled. In the winter of 1914, a steam locomotive chugs along through Minnesota until an accident halts the journey. The passengers—diverse in skin tone—exit the train and gather around a fire. Soon, stories start flowing to pass the time—tales of larger-than-life strong men Joe Mufferaw, Otto Walta, and George Knox.