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Day 2: Finished One Last Word, and 20% of audiobook A Slow Fire Burning

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“Let your doing be an exercise, not an exhibition.”

I enjoy how each poem has a poem made out of it from bold words on the right side of the margin! I would use in a classroom when learning about the Harlem Renaissance.

This book is a collection of poems inspired by the Harlem Renaissance. It uses a lot of words using sight and touch specifically regarding to this idea of hope and perseverance. I believe this book would be considered a concrete poem.

Anger is a hard itch to scratch; laughter a
secret tickle we let out in a thousand
sneezes, sometimes to camouflage cracked hearts;
love, envy, fear -- we all hear their echo.
Peel us to the core, we're all indistinguishable. Press the
solar plexus of any, you'll hear the selfsame sigh. (p. 92)

I wouldn't use this in any classroom below sixth grade. The poems take a deeper understanding than an elementary level. Despite this, the poems were incredibly interesting and any adult should take the time to look at this collection.

In this collection, Nikki Grimes looks at the Harlem Renaissance by representing art and poetry from several different people. The poetry involving using lines of poetry and re-formatting to create new poems. It was a refreshing way to read a poem while also aided the empowerment tis book displays. The author takes the tone of an original poem and explains the meaning while keeping the same tone.

The poems were wonderfully written but I would recommend this to children who are older.

One Last Word by Nikki Grimes, 2017. Poetry. The poems in this book are beautiful written. They have such a powerful meaning and it‘s very special. Nikki Grimes poems are very special because the last word in each of her sentences make up a full sentence. The poems are dedicated to the Harlem Renaissance.

Truth- “The truth is, every day we rise like thunder...”

These poems are very deep so it‘s definetly meant for older kids

“One Last Word” by Nikki Grimes. I really liked reading this and getting a taste of a bunch of different poems. I love how the last words of the poems are bolded, and when you read them they say the main point of the poem.

This poem from this poetry book is a great tool when assessing the different aspects it provides. It gives rhythm and shape to the poem with bolded words on each line and creating new lessons throughout the text. It gives good meaning and shows a good connection to the students!

This book brings great history into a children‘s classroom and gives real world experiences to what a child may witness in life! I think it would go well in a room to teach lessons and facts about life!

Inspired by the writers of the Harlem Renaissance, bestselling author Nikki Grimes uses "The Golden Shovel" poetic method to create wholly original poems based on the works of master poets like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Jean Toomer, and others who enriched history during this era.

The “Golden Shovel” method is fascinating! #somethingnew to me
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This beautiful book evokes the art, music, and style of the Harlem Renaissance. Nikki weaves her writing (called the Golden Shovel method)into the poetry of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and many others, accompanied by contemporary illustrations.

Doesn‘t seem like the best idea to put your poem alongside some of the greats- begs for comparison

Nikki Grimes does an amazing job by taking bits (or all of the lines) of an original poem & turning them into a piece of art using the Golden Shovel method 💕 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Devoured this morning! I wasn‘t familiar with “Golden Shovel” poetry before this book - what a fantastic form to bring history to stand with the present.

One of my favorite illustrations by Frank Morrison. (If you like Morrison, you can get annual wall calendar featuring his work.) All of the art in this little treasure is wonderful.

I‘m on vacation! So now my book shop jaunting is in California (a huge far cry from PA at this time of year)... for a whole week. Yesterday I discovered Book Passage in Corte Madera. Amazing. Cafe included. Every book published in recent months, I‘m certain. And a great conversation about recent movies with the cashier person. This was my find/purchase - wow, great poetry and gorgeous illustrations.

This is the first time in years that I haven‘t been able to attend the Festival of Faith and Writing in Michigan. I‘m not gonna lie, I cried a little.

My husband, who presented and manned the exhibition table for his quarterly book review, took on my dork mantle and got a bunch of books signed (which I‘d pre-purchased when I thought I would be attending.) PLUS, he bought me surprises!
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Good to remember about my own first born.

Loved this collection of poetry! Nikki Grimes uses a method called the Golden Shovel in which she selects a line or lines from others' poems and uses each word as the last word in a line of her own poetry (you'll see them bolded above). In this case, she has chosen influential poems from the Harlem Renaissance. This is also by far my absolute favorite piece of art in the entire book 😍

Loving my time at #ILA17 meeting lots of great people and authors!

I had never heard of this poetry form: Golden Shovel. It's fascinating. You can see in the picture that the poem is right justified. It's harder to see the last word of each line is bold but these bold words at the end of each line are a line from another poem. Some of the poems were created from stanzas or even entire poems. These poems are based on poems from the Harlem Renaissance which are included. Plus illustrations from several artists.

"Begin with whatever makes your heart sing," I teach them, "the dream that clings to you every hour. That's the key to what you're here for."

A little Sunday morning #poetry. Nikki Grimes uses poems of the Harlem Renaissance as inspiration for her own poems. And seriously, the accompanying artwork included is gorgeous! Highly recommend to everyone, although I could see it would be particularly great for teachers 🙌🏿✍🏾 #nationalpoetrymonth

This gem is a woke teacher's dream! I can't wait to use this when next I teach the Harlem Renaissance. Thanks, @WanderingBookaneer for the rec! #poetry

I loved this for reasons that will be articulated on thebookwars.ca at a later date.

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I am in awe of what Nikki Grimes has done in this collection. She has taken various poems published during the Harlem Renaissance and created shovel poems from lines, stanzas, and even entire poems. Her original works speak about the realities African Americans still face. Sadly, some of the contemporary poems show us that the issues that were relevant during the Harlem Renaissance are still present today. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is very relevant post-election.

I'm very excited to read this! One Last Word: Wisdom from the #HarlemRenaissance by Nikki Grimes for @Bloomsbury_Publishing