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Poetry Month April, 2021 It doesn’t have to rhyme! This is an Interactive Book List Click on the cover of each book to read descriptions and reviews on Amazon.com Search for these titles online at the San Diego Public Library, San Diego County Library or on the Libby app to read them for free. Amanda Gorman (1998-present) Amanda S. C. Gorman is an American poet and activist. She is best known for the recitation of her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of President Joe Biden in 2021. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She studied sociology at Harvard College, graduating cum laude in 2020 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Click this photo to see a video of Amanda Gorman. Middle School Novel in Verse May B. Red, White, Inside Out and Forget Me Not by Caroline and Whole Back Again by Ellie Terry Starr Rose by Rajani by Thanhhà Lai LaRocca Middle School Novel in Verse Knockout The Crossover: Booked: The Rebound: by K.A. Holt The Crossover Crossover The Crossover Series #1 Series #2 Series #3 by Kwame by Kwame by Kwame Alexander Alexander Alexander Middle School Novel in Verse Gone Fishing: A Love That Dog Hate That Cat Moo novel in verse by Sharon by Sharon by Sharon Creech by Tamera Will Creech Creech Wissinger Middle School Novel in Verse Rhyme Words with Unbound House Arrest Schemer Wings by Ann E. Burg by K.A. Holt by K.A. Holt by Nikki Grimes Middle School Novel in Verse Lifeboat 12 Redwood and The Places Reeni's Turn by Susan Ponytail We Sleep by Carol Grannick Hood by K.A. Holt by Caroline Brooks DuBois Middle School Novel in Verse Other Words Before the Ever Emmy in the A Slip of a Girl for Home After Key of Code by Patricia Reilly by Jasmine by Jacqueline by Aimee Giff Warga Woodson Lucido Middle School Novel in Verse Under the Closer to The Land of The Last Fifth Broken Sky Nowhere the Cranes Grade of Emerson by Mariko by Ellen by Aida Salazar Elementary Nagai Hopkins by Laura Shovan Middle School Novel in Verse Caminar Flying in a Gabriela: An Toppling American Girl by Skila Cage by Sally Murphy 3-Book Box Set Brown by Melody J. and Rhian Nest by Teresa E. Bremen James Harris and Varian Johnson Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) Born Theodor Seuss Geisel, Dr. Seuss is best known for writing and illustrating over 60 highly imaginative books for children. Dr. Seuss was a graduate of Dartmouth College in Massachusetts. During World War II, he served with Frank Capra's Signal Corps. This group made animated training films. He also drew propaganda posters for both the Treasury Department and the War Production Board. Dr.Seuss’ first book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, was rejected 27 times before it was finally published! Illustrated Poems The Lorax Green Eggs and Oh, the Thinks Six by Seuss: A by Dr. Seuss Ham You Can Think! Treasury of Dr. by Dr.Seuss by Dr. Seuss Seuss Classics by Dr. Seuss Illustrated Poems Paul Revere's The Night Before The Owl and Change Sings: Ride Christmas the Pussycat A Children's by Henry Hardcover: The by Edward Anthem Wadsworth Classic Edition by Lear and Jan by Amanda Longfellow Clement Moore Brett Gorman Illustrated Poems Goodnight A Place Inside of Stopping by The Real Mother Moon Me: A Poem to Woods on a Goose by Margaret Heal the Heart Snowy Evening by Blanche Wise Brown by Zetta Elliott by Robert Fisher Wright Frost Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Born in Chile, Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto was already recognized as a poet at the age of 13 when he won a contest he had entered. He used Pablo Neruda at first as his pen name but later he legally changed his name. An extremely complex man; Neruda’s careers as both a Poet and a Diplomat/Politician brought him to the attention of the world. Neruda won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. Nearly 100 years after its publication Neruda’s book of mature love poems Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and A Desperate Song) is still the bestselling book of poetry in the Spanish language. High School Novel in Verse The Poet X Long Way Down Punching the The Realm of by Elizabeth by Jason Air Possibility Acevedo Reynolds by Ibi Zoboi by David and Yusef Levithan Salaam High School Novel in Verse When You Ask Clap When You Finding Baba A Time to Dance Me Where I'm Land Yaga: A Short by Padma Going by Elizabeth Novel in Verse Venkatraman by Jasmin Acevedo by Jane Yolen Kaur High School Novel in Verse Up From the White Rose Bull Three Things I Sea by Kip Wilson by David Elliott Know Are True by Leza Lowitz by Betty Culley High School Novel in Verse Shakespeare Shakespeare 500 Words or Turtle under Ice Bats Cleanup Makes the Less by Juleah del by Ron Koertge Playoffs by Juleah del Rosario by Ron Koertge Rosario High School Novel in Verse Spoken: Beowulf: The Iliad & the The Black A Novel A New Verse Odyssey Flamingo by Melanie Translation by Homer and by Dean Atta Weiss by Seamus Samuel Butler Heaney (Translator) Gabriela Mistral(1889-1957) The daughter of a poet, Gabriela Mistral was a teacher, poet and diplomat from Chile. In 1945 she became the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature. Mistral’s own formal education ended when she was a teenager. A lack of qualified teachers provided the opening she needed to become a teacher, a job at which she excelled. Mistral went on to work in education in both Chile and Mexico and as a Professor of Spanish Literature in the USA and Puerto Rico. Mistral was a member of the LGBTQ+ community, but was unable to reveal that fact during her own lifetime. Middle School Poetry Collections Everything The Hill We Change Sings: Poetry for Young Comes Next: Climb: An A Children's People: William Collected and Inaugural Poem Anthem Butler Yeats New Poems for the Country by Amanda by Jonathan by Naomi by Amanda Gorman Allison and Glenn Shihab Nye Gorman Harrington Middle School Poetry Collections My First Book of Woke: A Young Yes! We Are #NotYourPrincess: Haiku Poems: a Poet's Call to Latinos: Poems Voices of Native Picture, a Poem and a Justice and Prose About American Women Dream; Classic Poems by Mahogany L. the Latino by Charleyboy and by Japanese Haiku Browne, Experience Leatherdale Masters Elizabeth by Alma Flor Ada by Esperanza Acevedo, et al. Ramirez-Christensen Middle School Poetry Collections Old Possum's Where the Classic Poetry: Red Hot Salsa: Book of Sidewalk Ends: An Illustrated Bilingual Poems on Practical Cats Poems and Collection Being Young and by T. S. Eliot Drawings by Michael Latino in the and Edward by Shel Rosen United States Gorey Silverstein by Lori Marie Carlson Middle School Poetry Collections Classic Poems Classic Poetry: Poems to Tiger, Tiger, to Read Aloud Candlewick Learn by Heart Burning Bright! - by James Illustrated by Caroline an Animal Poem Berry Classic Kennedy for Every Day of by Michael the Year Rosen By National Trust Middle School Poetry Collections 100 Great 100 Great I Remember: The Oxford Poems for Girls Poems for Boys Poems and Illustrated Book by Celia by Leslie Pictures of of American Johnson Pockell Heritage Children's Poems by Lee Bennett by Donald Hall Hopkins Middle School Poetry Collections A Poke in the I: Hip Hop Speaks Favorite Poems Hello, Earth!: A Collection of to Children: 50 of Childhood Poems to Our Concrete Poems Inspiring Poems by Philip Smith, Planet by Paul B. with a Beat Robert Louis by Joyce Sidman Janeczko and by Nikki Stevenson, et al. Chris Raschka Giovanni Middle School Poetry Collections World Make Way: A Poem for Lemonade: Technically, It's New Poems Inspired by Every Day of the and Other Not My Fault: Art from The Year Poems Concrete Poems Metropolitan Museum by Allie Esiri Squeezed from by John Grandits by The Metropolitan a Single Word Museum of Art by Bob Raczka Middle School Poetry Collections The Lost Spells Legacy: Leave This Song Take the Mic: by Robert Women Poets of Behind: Teen Fictional Stories MacFarlane the Harlem Poetry at Its Best of Everyday and Jackie Renaissance by Adam Resistance Morris by Nikki Grimes Halwitz, John by Jason Meyer, et al. Reynolds, Samira Ahmed, et al. Middle School Poetry Collections No Voice Too The Poetry of US: Ink Knows No Out of Wonder: Small: Fourteen More than 200 poems Borders: Poems of Poems Celebrating Young Americans that celebrate the the Immigrant and Poets Making History people, places, and Refugee Experience by Kwame by Lindsay H. passions of the by Patrice Alexander , Chris United States Metcalf , Keila V. Vecchione and Colderley, et al. by J. Patrick Alyssa Raymond Dawson, et al. Lewis Middle School Poetry Collections Echo Echo: The Dream Poetry for Poems Reverso Poems Keeper and Young People: by C. S. Lewis About Greek Myths Other Poems Langston by Marilyn Singer by Langston Hughes and Josée Masse Hughes by David Roessel Middle School Poetry Collections Are You an Echo?: Vile Verses Poetry for Poetry for Young The Lost Poetry of by Roald Dahl Young People: People: Misuzu Kaneko Rudyard Kipling Maya Angelou by Misuzu Kaneko, by Eileen by Edwin Graves Toshikado Hajiri, Gillooly and Wilson and Jerome et al. Jim Sharpe Lagarrigue Middle School Poetry Collections Hand in Hand: An Don't Wear Your The Sandburg Black Girl Magic: American History Knickers on Your Treasury: Prose A Poem Through Poetry Head (and other and Poetry for by Mahogany L.
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