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From all you can is the best you can by Selina Boan (grades 7 to 9)

Selina Boan is a Nehiyaw (Cree)-white settler living on the traditional and unceded terrories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples. Boan has been a standout in Canadian poetry every since she was shortlisted for the 2016 and 2020 CBC Poetry Prize. She published a series of poems titled "Undoing Hours" in 2021 which went on to win the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. "Undoing Hours" cover topics such as lose, love, grief and belonging while condisdering how we "undo, inherit, reclaim and (re)learn." Her Poem from “All You Can Do is the Best You Can Do" is about hope in the face of anger, shame, pain and fear.