Poetry Collections

 

Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States 

edited by Lori M. Carlson - Teen Area 811 COO

     What does it mean to be a Hispanic American teen?

 

Red Hot Salsa: On Being Young and Latino in the United States

edited by Lori M. Carlson - Teen Area 811.54 RED

     Latino poets, many well-know, write about everyday life and their hopes for the future.

 

Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls

edited by Betsy Franco, photographs by Nina Nickles - Teen Area 810.8 THI

     Girls age 12-18 write about everything bad hair days to loneliness to love.

 

You Hear Me? : Poems and Writing

by Teenage Boys - Teen Area 810.8 YOU

     Teenage boys write about love,loss, and life in an uncensored collection of writing.

 

Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems

by Mel Glenn - Teen Area 811.54 GLE

     A real slam dunk!

 

A Maze Me: Poems for Girls

by Naomi Shihab Nye - Teen Area 811.54 NYE

     More than 70 poems!

 

Poetry Matters

by Ralph Fletcher - Teen Area 808.1 FIE

    Tips for poets.

 

Blue Lipstick

by John Grandits - Teen Area 811.6 GRA

     Concrete poems in cool fonts and typeface spring off the page as Jessie describes teen life and desires.

 

Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth Century American Art

edited by Jan Greenberg - Teen Area 811.6 GRE

     A perfect blend of words and images.

 

Movin'

edited by Dave Johnson, pictures by Chris Raschka - Teen Area 811.54 MOV

    Teen poets take voice.

 

Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poets

edited by WritersCorp

    The diversity of these poems reminds us not to use broad brushstrokes to categorize teenagers, but rather to view them as individuals.

 

A Thousand Peaks: Poems from China

by Siyu Liu & Orel Protopopescu, illustrated by Siyu Liu - Teen 895.1152 LIU

     Learn about this fascinating country through the poetry.

 

I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs

edited by Naomi Shibab Nye & Paul B. Janeczko - Teen Area 808.81 NYE

    He said, she said in poems.

 

Soul Looks Back In Wonder

by Tom Feelings - Teen Area 811 SOU

     African American heritage celebrated through poems and artwork

 

Love: Selected Poems

by E.E Cummings - Teen Area 811.52 CUM

     Photo collages paired with poems of love.

 

The Practice of Poetry

by Robin Skelton - Teen Area 808.1 PRA

     Exercises for poets.

 

Teen Ink: Our Voices, Our Vision

compiled by Stephanie & John Meyer - Teen Area 810.8092 TEE

     Selections from Teen Ink magazine.

 

19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

by Naomi Shibab Nye Teen Area 811.54 NYE

     New and collected poems in a time when understanding is greatly needed.

 

What Have You Lost?

edited by Naomi Shibab Nye - Teen Area 808.81 WHA

     From the loss of a teddy bear to the loss of a parent – how would you deal?

 

The Rose That Grew From Concrete

by Tupac Shakur - Teen Area 811.54 SHA

     Poems by the late rapper in his own handwriting.

 

Slam

edited by Cecily von Ziegesar - Teen Area 811.54 SLA

    Teen poets, Shakespeare, and Tori Amos all in one book!

 

I Just HOPE It’s Lethal

collected by Liz Rosenberg and Deena November - Teen Area 811.54 ROS

    “Poems of Sadness, Madness, & Joy”.

 

A Wreath for Emmett Till

by Marilyn Nelson - Teen Area 811.54 NEL

     A brutal murder memorialized.

 

Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems and Lyrics

by Alicia Keys - Teen Area 782.4216 KEY

     Music is poetry.

 

Revolution on Canvas: Vols 1 & 2

edited by Rich Balling - Teen Area 811 BAL

     "Poetry form the Indie Music Scene".

Immersed in Verse

by Allan Wolf - Teen Area 808.1 WOL

 

Novels written in Verse

 

The Death of Jayson Porter - Teen FIC ADOFF

Shark Girl - Teen FIC BINGHAM

The Trial - Teen FIC BRYANT

Because I am Wallpaper - Teen FIC CHALTAS

Splintering - Teen FIC CORRIGAN

Keesha's House - Teen FIC FROST

Foreign Exchange: A Mystery in Poems -Teen FIC GLENN

Bronx Masquerade - Teen FIC GRIMES

Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath - Teen FIC HEMPHILL

CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse - Teen FIC HERRERA 

Burned - Teen FIC HOPKINS

Crank - Teen FIC HOPKINS

Glass - Teen FIC HOPKINS

Impulse - Teen FIC HOPKINS

The Brimstone Journals - Teen FIC KOERTGE

Shakespeare Bats Clean-up - Teen FIC KOERTGE

Street Love - Teen FIC MYERS

God Went to Beauty School - Teen FIC RYLANT

Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy- Teen FIC SONES

One of those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies - Teen FIC SONES

What My Mother Doesn’t Know - Teen FIC SONES

Hard Hit - Teen FIC TURNER

Make Lemonade - Teen FIC WOLFF

True Believer - Teen FIC WOLFF

This Full House - Teen FIC WOLFF

Locomotion - Teen FIC WOODSON

 

Poetry On the Web

 

TeenInk Poetry Teens, By Teens

 

Searching for a Poem or Poet

 

Academy of American Poets 

Bartleby.com

The International Library of Poetry

 

 

General

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 last update 4/1/09