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Jason Reynolds (born December 6, 1983) is an American author of novels and poetry for young adult and middle grade audiences. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in neighboring Oxon Hill, Maryland, Reynolds found inspiration in rap and had an early focus on poetry, publishing several poetry collections before his first novel in 2014, When I Was the Greatest, which won the John Steptoe Award ...
He has three new titles due out this fall: "Wild Brunch, Poems About How Animals Eat"; "A Tree is a Community"; and "The fluency development lesson: Closing the reading gap."
[3] General Charles C. Krulak, the commandant of the US Marine Corps, wrote "Once an Eagle has more to teach about leadership – whether it is in the boardroom or on the battlefield – than a score of modern-day management texts. It is a primer that lays out, through the lives of its two main characters, lessons on how and how not to lead." [3]
She is the co-creator (with Sylvia Vardell) of The Poetry Friday Anthology series and the Poetry Friday Power Book series, published by Pomelo Books. Her most recent book is HOP TO IT: Poems to Get You Moving , an anthology of 100 poems by 90 poets that focuses on the topics of movement, the pandemic, and social justice.
The book does not have a particular plot. It is designed with numerous blank spaces intended to be filled in by the reader (mostly written, with a few illustrations) with various pieces of information specific to themselves; hence the title, My Book About Me , and the author being listed as "Me, Myself" listing "some help" from Seuss and McKie.
In addition to being an expert hostess and "voracious romance reader," Ali says she "grew up in a book club family," adding, "my mom's been in the same book club for 40 years."
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.
Vignettes also appear in other creative forms such as web series, television shows, and films. For example, the web series High Maintenance uses vignettes to explore the lives of a different set of characters in each episode. [13] This series uses the vignette style to vividly portray themes of the human condition, such as boredom and ...