Page 10 - Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship

“A fresh and heartwarming take on bridging the racial divide.” QUALLS/ALKO LATHAM/WATERS

—Carole Boston Weatherford, author of Voice of Freedom:
Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

“These poems explore diversity with Can I TOUCH Your HAIR?
refreshing honesty and complexity—and
truly capture the personalities and voices
of these two rising stars of poetry.”
—Janet Wong, author and co-creator of
The Poetry Friday Anthology series

“Can I Touch Your Hair? is a compelling portrait of two
youngsters dancing delicately through a racial minefield.”
—J. Patrick Lewis, former US Children’s Poet Laureate t CAROLRHODA

POEMS of RACE, MISTAKES, and FRIENDSHIP