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Brown Girl Dreaming
Inside Out & Back Again
The Crossover
Long Way Down
Out of the Dust
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
House Arrest (House Arrest, #1)
Starfish
Burned (Burned, #1)
Odder
Clap When You Land
Crank (Crank, #1)
Alone
The Poet X
Solo
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Novel-in-Verse 2024
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Best regional poetry
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Books in Poem
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Poetry by Women
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Free Verse
130 books — 2 voters

G.K. Chesterton
vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture. ...more
G.K. Chesterton, Fancies Versus Fads

Richelle E. Goodrich
He was a volcano that spewed only ashes and destruction, and they despised him for that lying tongue.
Richelle E. Goodrich, A Heart Made of Tissue Paper

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