Such Color MIDDLE GRADE Paul Coates was a community

Paul Coates was a community worker at the time and didn't know Eddie well -- the little he knew

Barack Obama delivers a tender

Loosely based on her own teenage life and diaries

written with the awareness of the experiences and challenges that hinder anyone who exists beyond the structure of traditional white male power--women

from going to the park to philosophizing to playing ball

Such Color MIDDLE GRADE Paul Coates was a communityCelebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith opens up vast questions. Such Color: New and Selected Poems, her first career spanning volume, traces an increasingly audacious commitment to exploring the unknowable, the immense mysteries of existence. Each of Smiths four collections moves farther outward: when one seems to reach the limits of desire and the body, the next investigates the very sweep