2021 First Printing

Glory in the Margins: Sunday Poems

Copyright © 2021 by Nikki Grimes

ISBN 978-1-64060-677-7

Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Grimes, Nikki, author.

Title: Glory in the margins : Sunday poems / Nikki Grimes.

Description: Brewster, Massachusetts : Iron Pen, [2021] | Summary: “A thirteen month cycle of poems distilled from chosen scriptures, viewed from her perspective as Black, as woman, as poet, and looking for the glory found in the margins of life”-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021016483 (print) | LCCN 2021016484 (ebook) | ISBN 9781640606777 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781640606784 (epub) | ISBN 9781640606791 (pdf)

Subjects: BISAC: POETRY / American / African American & Black | POETRY / Women Authors | LCGFT: Poetry.

Classification: LCC PS3557.R489982 G57 2021 (print) | LCC PS3557.R489982 (ebook) | DDC 811/.54--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021016483

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021016484

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