“Praise Song for my Mother” was published in Grace Nichols’ first poetry collection I is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983). The anthology was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1983 and was adapted into a Channel 4 film and BBC radio play. The...

Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist, and filmmaker born in Pakistan whose work often touches on issues of cultural displacement and the search for the feeling of home. Her poem "Blessing," first published in the 1994 collection Postcards from god, ...

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a composition by American poet Robert Lee Frost (1874–1963). Originally published in 1923 by the Yale Review, the poem was included in Frost's collection called New Hampshire, also published that year.

Frost was awarded...

Published by Harper Collins in Canada and Tin House in the USA, What Storm, What Thunder is a haunting and revelatory portrait of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The publisher Tin House describes it as “a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of...

"Living Space," first published in 1997, is a poem by Imtiaz Dharker. Dharker is a poet, artist, and filmmaker whose work traverses the borders of Pakistan, her country of origin, and her adopted countries of India and the UK. Several themes in...

'Tis a Pity She's a Whore is an early modern English tragedy written in the early 1620s by John Ford. It was first published in 1633 and in its original published form was entitled 'Tis Pitty Shee's a Whoore. It was first performed between 1629...

Girl, Woman, Other is Bernardine Evaristo's eighth novel, for which she was awarded the 2019 Booker Prize along with Margaret Atwood for The Testaments. Evaristo has also written and published poetry, essays, and literary criticism. Currently the...

Jewell Parker Rhodes's Ghost Boys is a 2018 middle-grade novel about Jerome Rogers, a twelve-year-old Black boy in Chicago who is shot dead by a white police officer. The novel takes a mystical turn when Jerome becomes a ghost and learns about his...

The Buddha of Suburbia is the debut novel by Pakistani-British writer Hanif Kureishi. First published in 1990, the story follows Karim, a mixed-race teenager living in South London. The story takes place in the 1970s, a time of radical change in...

Time is a Mother is a collection of poems by Vietnamese-American novelist and poet Ocean Vuong, first published in 2022. Vuong's work often examines different threads of the poet's experiences growing up—he has referred to himself as “a queer...

Chimerica, a play by Lucy Kirkwood that premiered in 2013, explores the relationship between China and America following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest. Chimerica is a portmanteau of the words "China" and "America" that sounds similar to the...

The Lonely Londoners is a novel by Trinidadian writer Samuel Selvon, first published in 1956. It depicts the lives of various West Indian immigrants, showing their efforts to build a life in England.

The novel focuses on a Trinidadian man named...

Roller Girl (2015) was penned by Victoria Jamieson and tells the story of a young girl named Astrid, whose mother often takes her to "Evenings of Cultural Enrichment." Bored with these events, Astrid tries to find another way to occupy her time....

Alabama Moon (published in 2006) by Watt Key follows the ten-year-old Moon Blake as he navigates a unfamiliar and challenging world. Raised in the Alabama wilderness by his father, Moon must learn to adapt to society after his father's untimely...

Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery is a children's novel by Deborah and James Howe, published in 1979. The story is set in the Monroe household and is narrated from the perspective of the family dog, Harold. The Monroes, who also have a cat named...

The Black Cauldron (published in 1965), the second installment in "The Chronicles of Prydain" series by Lloyd Alexander, is an absorbing blend of fantasy, adventure, and classic coming-of-age narrative. The story revolves around the young...

Doug TenNapel is a 56-year-old American writer, cartoonist, and animator whose works have been converted to video games and animated television programs. For instance, TenNapel is best known for his video game character, Earthworm Jim, who became...

Lunch Money, penned by Andrew Clements, is a captivating middle-grade novel that offers young readers a deep dive into entrepreneurship. The book's narrative centers around a sixth-grade student named Greg Kenton and his knack for making money....

Wonderstruck (published in 2011) is an innovative work of children's literature written and illustrated by Brian Selznick. The novel uniquely utilizes both text and detailed illustrations to weave together two parallel narratives set fifty years...

The Incredible Journey is a novel published by Sheila Burnford in 1961. Burnford was born in Scotland and lived there until 1951 when she immigrated to Ontario with her husband. Her first decade in her adopted homeland provided the background and...