An exploration of how personal suffering can be transformed into grace, when that grief can be shared with others. Using the Buddhist “Mustard Seed” parable as scaffolding, Pasca’s work pays homage to Kisa Gotami’s quest to save her son by finding a home where, no suffering has befallen the inhabitants.

A memoir that is at once painful and triumphant. This is the story of how a child survived and became a woman who found herself and a writer who found her voice.

Jupiter Hammon was born October 17, 1711, a slave of Henry Lloyd of Lloyd’s Manor (Queens Village), Long Island, New York. His poem “An Evening’s Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries,” was the first poem published by an American of African descent. He published a total of nine pieces of verse and prose, all of a pietistic Christian nature.

This is the collected work of a major, versatile American poet passionately engaged with everything from the Holocaust and the Spanish Civil War to his love for New York City and his wife.

Born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, Gelish is now a Bay Shore resident. Self expression and poetry have always been important to him.

An extraordinary collection of wit and wisdom in one of the most challenging verse-forms imaginable. Her Clerihews – one hundred of them – range over a wide cultural expanse, offering the sophisticated reader a feast of delights.

In this anthology twenty-five poets use the magic of words to present Long Island in a series of vignettes.

Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes’s poetry – 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.

 The author’s love for her home is evident in her vivid descriptions of the local people and landscapes. The poems provide a glimpse into an American childhood of the period, as well as a celebration of the natural world.

From an official Suffolk County Historian, Paul Bailey’s work has a delightful spontaneity, with rhythm, laughter and homely imagery. Long Islanders everywhere will find a favorite in this collection.

This collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction, racism, sexism, and divisive politics.

This book is a dream-document both of light and innocence—babies and the urge to protect them—and of giving in to a wrenching darkness, where despair lies in the very fact that no single factor is to blame.

Walcott’s essential themes, from the wisdom-making pain of time and mortality to the strange wonder of love, the natural world, and what it means to be human. We see his lifelong labor at poetic crafts, his broadening of the possibilities of rhyme and meter, stanza forms, language, and metaphor.

One of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history. She observes the human heart and mind while exploring subjects ranging from politics and racism to poverty and loss.

One of the most important and unique voices in American letters, this distinguished poet, and storyteller was born into the Kiowa tribe and grew up on Indian reservations in the Southwest. The customs and traditions that influenced his upbringing ‘most notably the Native American oral tradition ‘are the centerpiece of his work.

Wilson’s unadorned but resonant language plumbs the poem’s profound pathos and reveals its characters as palpably real, even “complicated”, human beings. Capping a decade of intense engagement with Homer’s poetry, Wilson’s Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation.

The much-loved actor reveals his truly “wonderful life” through anecdotal verse enlivened by illustrations

A final collection of poems by the late young poet expresses his thoughts and feelings on such topics as peace, nature, death, hope, war, and faith.

The 2020 Nobel Prize winner’s haunting new book is the voice containing all of our lifetimes—“all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last.

The creator and star of “Hamilton” presents an illustrated book of affirmations to provide inspiration at the beginning and end of each day.

A poetic memoir and urgent call-to-action by author of Speak blends free-verse reflections with deeply personal stories from her life to rally today’s young people to stand up and fight the abuses, censorship and hatred of today’s world.

An evocative novel in verse follows the experiences of two grieving sisters who navigate the loss of their Follows the experiences of two grieving sisters who navigate the loss of their father and the impact of his death on their relationship.

While balancing band practice during the summer with his new girlfriend, Joanna, called “fregona” because she’s tough, soon-to-be eighth grader Güero must reconsider what it means to show up for someone you love when tragedy strikes.

From New York Times Bestselling author Kwame Alexander comes the first book in a searing, breathtaking trilogy that tells the story of a boy, a village, and the epic odyssey of an African family.

When her best friend’s cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits surfing, singing, or reading poetry can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.

When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears.

There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don’t cry ; Don’t snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn’s gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each floor, someone connected to Shawn gets on. And each has something to share with Will.

In the wake of being sexually assaulted by her pastor, sixteen-year-old Amina struggles to regain her footing until she finds the strength within herself to confront her abuser in court.

Odder spends her days off the coast of California, practicing underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she’s known. She’s a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry shark, her life takes a turn that will challenge everything she believes about herself and about the humans who hope to save her.

When Etan, who doesn’t speak, and Malia, who is also known as “the Creature” due to her acute eczema, become friends, Etan must convince his family and hers that he might have a cure for her condition.

Accompanying her father on a slot-canyon expedition in the Arizona desert a year after a random shooting changed their family forever, Nora is separated from her father and their supplies by a flash flood and must navigate the deadly natural hazards of the desert to survive.

After a devastating tornado tears apart her home, thirteen-year-old Quinn struggles to find stability and return to who she was before, finding she has to rebuild herself.

Twelve-year-old Adnan dreams of making it to the Ultimate Table Tennis championship, but when tragedy strikes his family, Adnan loses his passion for table tennis and must learn to channel his grief and heal.

Bullied and shamed her whole life for her weight, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.

Follows the experiences of a deaf child whose impoverished family is forced to send him to a cruel institution, where he receives friendship and teaching from a conscientious war objector.

Struggling with her feelings for a female classmate, an eleven-year-old Irish girl tries to confide in her mother, the person she trusts most in the world.

Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home.

Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be “normal” she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different and why that is ok.

A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become.

Feeling disconnected from her heritage as the only Indian-American student in her community, young Reha commits herself to a future different from her dreams when her mother becomes dangerously ill.

Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative’s home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.

ZJ’s friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.