One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
“One Last Word” by Nikki Grimes is a poetry collection that blends poems from Harlem Renaissance writers with Grimes’s own Golden Shovel poems—which embed lines from the originals into new work. Illustrated by multiple award-winning artists, the book connects historic themes to contemporary Black experiences with nuance and beauty. Families use it for middle- and high-school literature or Black history units, exploring poetic form, intertextuality, and the enduring legacy of Harlem Renaissance voices.
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