Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa--she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa's exile from Haifa to his family's current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the cyclical...

"These poems emerge directly from the experience of growing up and living in constant lockdown, and often under direct attack. Like Gaza itself, they are filled with bombs, rubble and the ever-present menace of surveillance drones policing a people unwelcome in their own land. They are also suffused with the smell of tea, roses in bloom, and the view of a sunset over the sea. Children are born, families continue traditions, students attend university,...

"...a collection of floating ideas... created to amuse, maybe confuse, and mostly just to entertain. There are good moments and bad but life is just like that. We all have them. We all need each other to get thru as well. Above that, we all need the Lord. It is He that surrounds us with all those angels in our lives that are important. He knows just what we need long before we think to ask."--adapted from back cover.

"... a wonderful collection of poems and stories for your entertainment."--Back cover.

"Winter Wishes and Icicle Dreams is a wonderful collection of poetry and short verse, centered around what matters to our hearts most. It touches on family, friends, and those we claim as part of our life."--Amazon.com.

A unique and artful blend of poetry, science, and activism, this picture book shows how city dwellers can intervene so that nature can work her magic. Perfect for fans of The Curious Garden and Harlem Grown.

Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.

"Survival Strategies is a love story wrapped in a reckoning. Arranged in three parts, the arc follows a speaker who is returning to the Sonoran of her birth after many years away. In the course of the first section, "The Sunniest Place on Earth," we learn that the speaker has developed a deep hatred of the desert (a reflection of herself) due to the way she was treated and what she witnessed while being raised there. As we move through to part two,...

"This is a collection of poems and short pieces. They were written with one fine thread... running in and out. It is the string that binds us all, magic... or truly a better word, a more accurate word, a more beautiful word is 'miracle' or 'miracles'"--Amazon.com.