In 2014, she was named the first Young Poet Laureate for London and chosen as poet-in-residence for Queensland, Australia. In 2013, she won Brunel University’s first African Poetry Prize. She has performed her work internationally at events in South Africa, Italy, Germany, and the United States. Shire is the poetry editor of Spook Magazine and has guest edited Young Sable LitMag. Shire’s poetry was adapted for singer Beyoncé’s album Lemonade in 2016. She is the author of the collections Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (flipped eye, 2011), Her Blue Body (flipped eye, 2015), and Our Men Do Not Belong to Us (Slapering Hol Press and Poetry Foundation, 2015). Her work has appeared in a range of journals and anthologies, including Poetry Review, Wasafiri, Sable LitMag the Salt Book of Younger Poets (2011), Long Journeys: African Migrants on the Road (2013), and Poems That Make Grown Women Cry (2016). Warsan Shire was born in Kenya in 1988 and is a London-based Somali-British writer.
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Join NCSS and inquirED to explore how building background knowledge through social studies improves literacy outcomes and gives students the deep understanding they need to participate in civic life. This is a book for todays youth about what it means to be a citizen. We’ll also be joined by teachers who are using the book in their classrooms to help students take informed action in their communities. acclaimed duo behind the bestselling Her Right Foot: Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris. Dave Eggers, best-selling writer, editor, and publisher will join us along with illustrator Shawn Harris to discuss their book What Can a Citizen Do? The book is inspiring young students across the country to participate in the civic life of their communities. In 1952 she published her prize-winning study of the ocean, The Sea Around Us, which was followed by The Edge of the Sea in 1955. She wrote pamphlets on conservation and natural resources and edited scientific articles, but in her free time turned her government research into lyric prose, first as an article "Undersea" (1937, for the Atlantic Monthly), and then in a book, Under the Sea-Wind (1941). She began a fifteen-year career in the federal service as a scientist and editor in 1936 and rose to become Editor-in-Chief of all publications for the U. Bureau of Fisheries to write radio scripts during the Depression and supplemented her income writing feature articles on natural history for the Baltimore Sun. Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932. Her mother bequeathed to her a life-long love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology. 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