Artist / Poet Title Track
A Tribe Called Quest Ham 'N' Eggs
Aesop Rock No Regrets
Angela Shannon First Signature
Antwone Fisher Who Will Cry for the Little Boy?
Benjamin Zephaniah For Words
Calef Brown Funky Snowman
Charles R. Smith Allow me to Introduce Myself
Claude McKay If We Must Die
COMMON Love Is
Elizabeth Swados Me
Eloise Greenfield Books
Eloise Greenfield Oh, Words
Eloise Greenfield Things
Gary Soto Music for Fun and Profit
Gil Scott-Heron I think I'll Call it Morning
Gwendolyn Brooks Aloneness
Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool
Hope Anita Smith Audition
Ja Jahannes If We Forget
Jacqueline Woodson Hip Hop Rules the World
James Berry Taking Action
James Berry People Equal
James Weldon Johnson The Creation
Jill Scott It's Love
Kanye West Hey Mama
Langston Hughes Harlem Night Song
Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes Dream Boogie
Langston Hughes Dream Variations
Lauryn Hill Everything is Everything
Lucille Clifton why some people be mad at me sometimes
Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have A Dream
Maya Angelou Harlem Hopscotch
Mos Def Umi Says
Nikki Giovanni Ego Tripping
Nikki Giovanni The Rosa Parks
Nikki Giovanni The Girls in the Circle
Nikki Grimes Doubtless
Oscar Brown, jr Dat Dere
Paul Laurence Dunbar We Wear the Mask
Pedro Pietri Love Poem for My People
Queen Latifah Ladies First
Ruth Forman Waitin on Summer
Sterling Brown Long Track Blues
Stetsasonic Talkin' All That Jazz
Sugarhill Gang Rapper's Delight
Tupac Shakur The Rose that Grew from Concrete
W.E.B. DuBois The Smoke King
Walter Dean Meyers Jimmy Wall, 14, Boy Evangelist
William Waring Cuney No Images
Young MC Principal's Office
National Book Award nominee, Spoken Word Grammy nominee and New York Times best-selling author Nikki Giovanni leads an advisory board comprised of leading hip hop poet Willie Perdomo, Howard University professor Tony Medina, and music specialist Michele Scott.
"With appeal for preliterate children, their great grandparents,
and every generation between, this will be fun for families to
share as they get their groove on. " - Booklist
"The variety of poetic forms and performance styles...makes this
collection an excellent source of material not found together
elsewhere." - Kirkus Reviews
"The beats would make any kid want to get up and dance, and I think
the idea of incorporating music with the poetry will keep kids
interested." - Savvy Verse & Wit
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