Bravo!: Poems About Amazing Hispanics

All the Way to Havana

Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln

A Song of Frutas

Orangutanka: A Story in Poems

Singing with Elephants

Light for All

Harriet Tubman

"I find it so easy to forget / that I'm just a girl who is expected / to live / without thoughts." Opposing slavery in Cuba in the nineteenth century was dangerous. The most daring abolitionists were poets who veiled their work in metaphor. Of these, the boldest was Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, nicknamed Tula. In passionate, accessible verses of her own, Engle evokes the voice of this book-loving feminist and abolitionist who bravely resisted an arranged marriage at the age of fourteen, and was ultimately courageous enough to fight against injustice. Historical notes, excerpts, and source notes round out this exceptional tribute.

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Rafael López, Margarita Engle, 2019

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Margarita Engle, Renee Kurilla, 2015

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Margarita Engle, 2022

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Margarita Engle, Raúl Colón, 2021

Harriet Tubman

Dana Meachen Rau, 2000