Poetry is a shortcut to literacy. This book captures the rhyme and rhythm of words. It is about feelings and emotions from the heart. It is about the soul. We feed the soul with poetry. It is about life as we experience multiculturalism in the melting pot of New York. It describes the flavor of words and beats as they occur on a daily basis in the metropolitan areas of the cities. Cooked-Up Poetry is about the different ways that people express themselves on a daily basis. It shows the essence of living by lining up passion with poetry. It shows us that we are one in the spirit and that we...

POETRY is a short cut to literacy. Th is book captures the rhyme and the rhythm
of words. It is about feelings and emotions from the heart. It is about the soul..
We feed the soul with poetry. It is about life, as we experience multiculturealism
in the melting pot of New York. IT describes the fl avor of words and beats as
they occur on a daily basis in the metropolitan areas in the cities.. Coocked up
poetry is a bout the diff erent ways that people express themselves on a daily basis.
It shows the essence of living by lining up passion with poetry. It...

She is sharing some of her favorite poems that she had to repeat everyday in her little village. This book presents the flavor and spiciness of words as they can be sung or repeated at home or at school. She is helping young people to remember their own cultural back grounds, and to celebrate their own culture as they live in a plural society in the United States of America. New York is a melting pot of different cultures and we can celebrate our own cultures as we live from day to day by learning poems from the past and the present.
Cheryl Ainsworth Martin is a teacher. She is the...