History, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington’s Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place in the Midwestern United States.
“Harrington knows how to tell a story.”
—The Horn Book
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About Janice
Janice N. Harrington is the author of three poetry books including the award-winning Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone and eight celebrated children’s books, together with the popular favorites The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County, Catching a Storyfish, and Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Life of Charles S. Parker. She has worked as an elementary school teacher, librarian, voice-over artist, and professional storyteller. She’s is now a Professor of English at the University of Illinois.
Selected Awards
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship | The Best American Poetry | Cave Canem Fellow | Pushcart Prize
Time Magazine, Top 10 Children's Books of 2007 | Parents’ Choice Gold Award | Ezra Jack Keats Award
Praise for Janice’s Work
“In her innovative and incisive third book of poems, Primitive , Janice N. Harrington shows us the great revelations possible in the intersections of history and poetry.”
—Adrian Matejka
“Harrington is a celebratory poet who sees with the fresh, wondering eye of a child, but knows with the mind and heart of an adult.”
—Elizabeth Spires
(Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone)
“Janice Harrington's work should be required reading for nurses, doctors and practitioners entering the ward.”
—The Washington Independent Review of Books
(The Hands of Strangers)
“Harrington's storytelling style make the prose jump from page to ear.”
—The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred
(The Chicken-Chasing Queen of
Lamar County)
“... understated, fully realized, deftly written, and utterly absorbing.”
—School Library Journal, starred review (Catching a Storyfish)
“Small book lovers are sure to respond to the joyful imagery as well as the lyrical bounce of the language. . . . A tender snapshot of a loving daddy-daughter bond.”
—Kirkus Reviews
(Hurry, Kate, or You’ll Be Late!)
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