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Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez is an award-winning poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University, and is currently a poet-in-residence there. She is the author of sixteen books, including Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, Does Your House Have Lions?, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Shake Loose My Skin, and Morning Haiku.
I Am a Carnival of Stars
This Is Not a Small Voice
Homegirls & Handgrenades
Collected Poems
Morning Haiku
Shake Loose My Skin
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums
Does Your House Have Lions?
Wounded in the House of a Friend

Books

I Am a Carnival of Stars
This Is Not a Small Voice
Homegirls & Handgrenades
Collected Poems
Morning Haiku
Shake Loose My Skin
Like the Singing Coming off the Drums
Does Your House Have Lions?
Wounded in the House of a Friend

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