Poetry and Poetic Novels
Poetry draws us inward, and makes us think about our lives and the meaning within it. Lines of poetry that hold a great deal of meaning tend to pop into our minds many years later.
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye
Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Carver: a Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
The Child’s Calendar by John Updike
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems On Growing Up Latino in the United States Edited by Lori Carlson
God Went to Beauty School by Cynthia Rylant
Good Poems Edited by Garrison Keillor
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art
Edited by Jan Greenberg
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices by Walter Dean Myers
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: Her Poems and His Poems Collected in Paris
Edited by Naomi Shihab Nye & Paul B. Janeczko
I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry Edited by Catherine Clinton
The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers by Liz Rosenberg
Keesha’s House by Helen Frost
Learning to Swim by Ann Warner Turner
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me at All by John Agard
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
Make Lemonade and True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
My Father’s Summers by Kathi Appelt
New and Selected Poems, Volume One and Volume Two by Mary Oliver
New Found Land by Allan Wolf
North of Everything by Craig Crist-Evans
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
The Place My Words Are Looking for: What Poets Say About and Through Their Work
Selected by Paul B. Janeczko
A Poke in the I: a Collection of Concrete Poems Selected by Paul B. Janeczko
The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ron Koertge
Something Permanent by Cynthia Rylant
The Spoken Revolution: Slam Hip Hop and the Poetry of a New Generation Edited by Marc Smith
Stop Pretending by Sonya Sones
What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones
Witness by Karen Hesse
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
You Come Too: Favorite Poems for Readers of All Ages by Robert Frost
