Family Pictures: Poems And Photographs Celebrating Family
by Kwame Alexander

Family Pictures, edited by Kwame Alexander, is a celebration of the paradise of family. The woes and wonders. This book includes over 70 poets, new and established, and 10 photographers, award winning and emerging. Family Pictures aims to show the variety and value of family love, especially the joys of childhood…to remind us that no matter the time or circumstance, whether peril or promise, family matters and it always lasts." CONTRIBUTORS Opal Palmer Adisa, Kwame Alexander, Ashkari, Chrissy Banks, Roberta Beary, Alicia Benjamin-Samuels, Sylvia Dianne Beverly, Joelle Biele, Mawiyah Bomani, Nadir Lasana Bomani, Ann Reisfeld Boutte, Kyndall Brown, Monique Brown, Leah Browning, Carol Carpenter, Noni Carter, Grace Cavalieri, Ching-In Chen, Lucille Clifton, Maritza Rivera Cohen, Christine Compo, Christopher Conlon, Sarah Conover, Mathilda W. Cox, Barbara Crooker, Alan Davis, Jeanette Drake, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Natasha Ria El-Scari, Gretchen Fletcher, Adele C. Geraghty, Nikki Giovanni, Judy Lee Green, Jennifer Gresham, Joy Harold Helsing, Karla Huston, Miccolo Johnson, Sandra Jones, Carolyn Joyner, Jacqueline Jules, Melissa Morelli Lacroix, Pamela Lewis, Diane Lockward, Dan Logan, Frederick Lord, Christina Lovin, Sandra Cohen Margulius, Stepehen Mead, Tony Medina, J.J. Michael, E. Ethelbert Miller, Deanna Nikaido, Shin Yu Pai, Michelle J. Pinkard, Andrea Potos, William Reichard, Regena "Sonray" Reighns, Susan Rich, Jason Kelly Richards, Katy Richey, Charles P. Ries, Kim Roberts, Alison C. Rollins, Matthue Roth, Carly Sachs, Metta S ma, Darlene Anita Scott, Derek Sheffield, Glen Sorestad, Judith Strasser, Kathleen Sullivan, Lynn Tait, Ijeama Thomas, Angela Boykin Turnbull, Davi Walders, Phylis Warady, Christine West, Sandra L. West, Mary-Sherman Willis, and Shana Yarborough. PHOTOGRAPHERS Bailey, Rodney Bing, Bonita DiBari, Michael Fitzsimons, Martha Hewling, Nataki Johnson, Jason Miccolo Lassiter, Shevry Michelle, Renee Siegel, Carol Solomon, Frank