Poetry

A collection of poems, each with a different teen narrator sharing unique thoughts, moments, sadness, or heart's desire: the girl who loves swimming, plunging into the water that creates her own world; the guy who leaves flowers on the windshield of the girl he likes. Each of the teens in these 50 original poems, written using a variety of poetic forms, will be recognizable to the reader as the universal emotions, ideas, impressions, and beliefs float across the pages in these gracefully told verses.

190 girls and women share poems and stories about their adventures, families, dreams, and emotions. Many of the pieces in this anthology connect with Los Angeles, where concrete rivers, vines of jasmine, and miles of freeways weave a complex web of canyons, landmarks, and neighborhoods.

Get to know the Get Lit Players, a group of teens who use poetry to take on the world, with this common-core aligned book that sheds light on teen issues through their own poetry and slam poetry performances.

A collection of poems in Spanish and English about childhood, place, and identity.

Teenage poets explore age-old themes of love and loss, creativity, and self-awareness. The poems are chosen from contributors of Teen Ink.

This is a book of original poetry by and for teens. Dramatic, plaintive, despairing, and hopeful, this unusual collection has been gathered together by artists Esther Pearl Watson and Mark Todd and dramatically illustrated with stunning paintings.

The diverse voices of teens from San Francisco, Washington, DC, and the Bronx are brought together in a collection of poems written by teens who have taken part in writing programs run by a national nonprofit organization.

A collection of poems about the experiences of young people and a section with information about how each poem was written to enable readers to create their own original poems.

This work illuminates today's Black experience through the voices of transformative and powerful African American poets. This volume includes the poems of 43 African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Tracy K. Smith. A photograph of the poet and a first-person biography accompany each. The anthology also contains personal essays on race, such as "The Talk" by Jeannine Amber. It works by Harry Belafonte, Amiri Baraka, and The Reverend Dr. William Barber II, architect of the Moral Mondays movement, as well as images and iconic political posters of the Black Lives Matter movement, Malcolm X, and the Black Panther Party. Taken together, Of Poetry and Protest voices the current conversation about race in America while providing historical and cultural context.

Here is a cross-section of American poetry as it is, full of grit and love, sparkling with humor, searing the heart, smashing through boundaries on every page. Please Excuse This Poem features one hundred acclaimed younger poets from truly diverse backgrounds and points of view, whose work has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to Twitter, tackling a startling range of subjects in a startling range of poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war, unpacking the meaning of "the rape joke," sharing the tender moments at the start of a love affair: these poems tell the world as they see it.

Free verse poems that explore how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, their friends—as consumers, as objects, as competitors. Based on classic fairy tale characters and fairy tale tropes, the poems range from contemporary retellings to first-person accounts set within the original stories. From Snow White's cottage and Rapunzel's tower to health class and the prom, these poems are a moving depiction of young women, society, and our expectations.

This poetry collection captures a multitude of voices from the 1963 March on Washington—and a multitude of experiences, hopes, and emotions.

Six fictional characters, in cycles of linked poems, relate their memories of the historic day in 1963 when more than 250,000 people from across the United States joined together to march on Washington, D.C., calling for civil and economic rights for African Americans.

Anthology including over 50 works of poetry by 20th-century writers on issues related to social justice in American society.

The collection contains classic children's poems by Emily Dickinson and many others, as well as poems by today's most popular poets, from poet laureate Kay Ryan to Naomi Shihab Nye. Foster the love of poetry during National Poetry Month, on Poem in Your Pocket Day, or in the classroom any day of the school year.

A beautiful novel-in-verse about an adoptee, Rynn, trying to come to terms with her abusive mother and finding her family roots. Searching for her birth mother, she finds a younger sister who is in foster care. Yearning to make a connection she sets off a chain of events that will have the reader rooting for Rynn at every turn.