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Barbed Wire Between Us

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By Mia Wenjen, Jackie Morera, Amber McBride, Kim Hyo-eun
| buff.ly
Via a reverso structure and layered images, Wenjen and Encarnación trace the stories of two children, seemingly generations apart, in a haunting dual narrative of imprisonment and family separation. Spare reportorial lines and visual context clues appear first to describe the experience of a youth of Japanese descent interned during WWII; in a second sequence, the text’s reversal seems to follow a Latinx-cued child seized during a border crossing.
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MAGICK HOODOO CHILD

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By Amber McBride
| Kirkus Reviews Verified
A unique tale to be welcomed with excitement and awe—and cherished. A Black child spends the summer with Grandma learning the ways of their ancestors. At Juniper’s school in the city, bullies—seen in the shadows but apparently white—taunt the young girl. On a day devoted to celebrating students’ heritage, they tell her she doesn’t know where she comes from. Juniper’s mojo bag, tucked in her pocket, doesn’t keep the bullies at bay.
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The Invitation of Brevity: Ten Novels in Verse That Will Hook You

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By Amber McBride
| Literary Hub Verified
I imagine the average person’s introductions to poetry involved phrases like, I don’t understand! What does it mean?! And eventually, much later in life, landing on, It’s so pretentious! A fair assessment when most of us were introduced to poetry in school after lunch on a random Wednesday. It was probably Shakespeare or Frost (who, to be clear, are brilliant poets), but perhaps not when you are 15 years old.
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