Poetry

You say you don't like poetry? Ba-humbug, you say? Listen--there is so much poetry out there--so much variety--that you simply have to give poetry another try. Here's a handy list of poetry especially for you. Want more? Ask your friendly neighborhood librarian.

Appelt, Kathi – Poems From Homeroom : a writer's place to start

Flake, Sharon – You Don't Even Know Me : stories and poems about boys

– I Wouldn't Thank You For a Valentine : poems for young feminists

Janeczko, Paul B. (editor) – Blushing : expressions of love in poems and letters

Medina, Tony and Louis Reyes Rivera (eds.) – Bum Rush the Page : a Def Poetry Jam

Mora, Pat – Dizzy in Your Eyes : poems about love

Nelson, Marilyn – A Wreath for Emmett Till

Nye, Naomi Shihab. – A Maze Me : poems for girls

Rosenberg, Liz, (editor) – I Just Hope It's Lethal : poems of sadness, madness, and joy

Rylant, Cynthia. – Boris

– Seeing the Blue Between : advice and inspiration for young poets

Sidman, Joyce (editor) – The World According to Dog : poems and teen voices

Soto, Gary. – A Fire in My Hands : poems

– Teen Angst : a celebration of really bad poetry

WritersCorps – Paint Me Like I Am : teen poems