April 2022 Virtual Teen Pride Club: Queer Poetry and Books in Verse
Our Virtual Pride Club for Teens ages 13-18 continues this month with the theme of queer poetry and books in verse! April is National Poetry Month, so feel free to pick out a poetry book, slam poetry on youtube, song lyrics, or even write your own poetry and share with everyone.
We will be meeting online at 5:00 pm every Tuesday in April. New participants are always welcome! For more information, email teenpride@sonomalibrary.org.
Our Recommendations:
(Hint: click on the book covers to go to the library catalog)
Clap When You Land
by Elizabeth Acevedo
(she/her)
Y ACEVEDO
The Black Flamingo
by Dean Atta
(he/him)
Y ATTA
Muted
by Tami Charles
(she/her)
Y CHARLES
Apple: Skin to the Core
by Eric Gansworth
(she/her)
Y 970.004 GANSWORTH
Take Me With You
by Andrea Gibson
(they/them)
Y 811 GIBSON
A Million Quiet Revolutions
by Robin Gow
(they/ze/he)
Y GOW
Baby Teeth
by Meg Grehan
(she/her)
ebook only
Every Body Looking
by Candice Iloh
(they/she)
Y ILOH
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
by Audre Lorde
(she/her)
811 LORDE
I am Water
by Meg Specksgoor
(she/her)
Y SPECKSGOOR
The Most Dazzling
Girl in Berlin
by Kip Wilson
(she/her)
Y WILSON
Nothing Burns As
Bright As You
by Ashley Woodfolk
(she/her)
Y WOODFOLK
Upcoming Release:
Land Acknowledgement:
We invite everyone to take a moment to honor these ancestral lands that we are collectively gathered upon and encourage all of us to think of ways to become better stewards of the lands we inhabit. We acknowledge our libraries occupy the traditional homelands of the Coast Miwok, Kashaya, Southern Pomo, and Wappo tribal nations, whose descendants still live here today. We recognize the historical and ongoing violence of settler colonialism and affirm Indigenous sovereignty. We will continue to hold ourselves accountable to the needs of the Indigenous people of Sonoma County, California, and beyond.
