Books & Resources
For Poets
Books & Resources
Okay, so you’ve read
Emily Dickinson,
William Shakespeare,
Robert Frost, &
e.e. cummings…
How about trying:
Rita Dove
Billy Collins
Kenneth Koch
William Butler Yeats
Seamus Heaney
Guillaume Appollinaire
Pablo Neruda
Anne Sexton
Ted Kooser
Langston Hughes
Denise Levertov
Dylan Thomas
Nikki Giovanni
Wallace Stevens
Ezra Pound
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dorothy Parker
John Keats
Ogden Nash
Jose Luis Borges
Adrienne Rich
So many poets, so little time!
Novels in Verse
17: A Novel in Prose Poems
Liz Rosenberg
The Brimstone Journals
Ron Koertge
Girl Coming in for a Landing
April Halprin Wayland
Jinx
Margaret Wild
Keesha’s House
Helen Frost
Locomotion
Jacqueline Woodson
Love That Dog
Sharon Creech
Make Lemonade
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Split Image
Mel Glenn
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
Sonya Sones
The Taking of Room 114
Mel Glenn
True Believer
Virginia Euwer Wolff
What My Mother Doesn’t Know
Sonya Sones
Witness
Karen Hesse
Dark Sons
Nikki Grimes
Poetry Anthologies
Angst! Teen Verses from the Edge
Karen Tom
Behind the Wheel: Driving Poems
Janet Wong
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Hispanic in the United States
Lori Carlson
From Totems to Hip Hop: A Multicultural Anthology
Ishmael Reed
God Went to BeautySchool
Cynthia Rylant
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You
Naomi Shihab Nye
I Wouldn’t Thank You for a Valentine
Carol Ann Duffy.
The Invisible Ladder
Liz Rosenberg
Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems
Mel Glenn
Paint Me Like I Am
Bill Aguado
Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou
The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Tupac Shakur
Slow Dance Heart Break Blues
Arnold Adoff.
The Spoken Word Revolution
Mark Eleveld
Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writings by Teenage Girls
Betsey Franco
Truth and Lies
Patricia Vecchione
What Have You Lost?
Naomi Shihab Nye
You Hear Me? Poems and Writings by Teenage Boys
Betsy Franco
101 Poems to Get You Through the Day (and Night)
Daisy Goodwin
Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
Neil Astley
Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation
Roger Housden
Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School
M. Anderson & D. Hassler
Go to the 800’s for more poetry
Poetry on the Web
Academy of American Poets.
The PoetryCenter of the Library of Congress.
The Poetry Society of America
Current and archived issues of Poetry magazine.
Hear or read a poem on each of the 180 days of the school year.
You can listen to the daily poem or have it sent via e-mail.
Poetry Daily each day brings you a new poem from books, magazines and journals.
This site is a “virtual refrigerator” on which you can compose magnetic poetry.
Poetry Slam is the competitive art of performance poetry.
Teen Ink is a website devoted entirely to writing and art created by teens.
Writer’s Digest magazine online offers articles and activities for budding writers.