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Books In Verse
Friday, 27 March, 2026
Librarians Katie and Desirae talk about books in verse just in time for poetry month! Books mentioned: Love That Dog by Sharon Creech, Enter the Body and Everything Is Poison by Joy McCullough, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, Crank, Glass, and Fallout by Ellen Hopkins, Starfish by Lisa Fipps, Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi, Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai, Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, Shout, Speak, and Winter Girls by Laurie Halse Anderson, and One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones. Also mentioned: The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, Beautiful Boy by David Sheff, Tweak by Nic Sheff, and the movie Trainspotting. You can find Cristal Morris on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@cristalthetford4791 Check out books, TV shows and movies at countycat.mcfls.org, wplc.overdrive.com, hoopladigital.com and kanopy.com/en/westallis. For more about WAPL, visit westallislibrary.org. Music: Tim Moor via Pixabay
