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Podcast: The Children's Book Podcast
Episode: Nikki Grimes - Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Description: Nikki Grimes, poet author and longtime friend of the podcast, shares LEGACY: WOMEN POETS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE. Nikki's new book showcases poems from the Harlem Renaissance written by Black women. Each poem is then followed by a Golden Shovel poem written by Nikki in response to the original. The Golden Shovel poetic form, created by Terrance Hayes and described to readers by Nikki, "calls poets to take a short poem in its entirety, or a line from the poem, called a striking line, and to create a new poem using the words from the original." I found many of...