Poetry Month

April, 2021

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Amanda S. C. Gorman is an American poet and activist. She is best known for the recitation of her poem “ We Climb” at the inauguration of President 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.

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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 (1904–1973) Born in , 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 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) (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 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 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. by Lee Bennett very serious poems Young People Browne Hopkins and about really by Carl Peter M. Fiore important stuff) Sandburg by Becci Murray Middle School Poetry Collections

Poetry for The Nonsense From the Tap Dancing on Kids: Emily Limericks of Inside: The the Roof: Dickinson Edward Lear Inner Soul of a Sijo (Poems) by Emily by Birchall Young Poet by Linda Sue Dickinson Publishing by Thanvi Park Voruganti Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-1784) Phillis Wheatley was captured in West Africa as a child of approximately seven. She was sold into slavery in Boston, Massachusetts to the family of John Wheatley. Recognizing her intelligence, the Wheatley family taught Phillis to read and write. She was thirteen when her first poem was published. A London abolitionist helped Phillis publish her first book of 28 poems in 1773. The Wheatleys freed Phillis sometime before their deaths, but she was never able to raise the funds needed to publish her second collection of poetry. Phillis died in poverty and most of the poems intended for her second book have been lost. High School Poetry Collections

101 Famous The 100 Best The Oxford Asian American Poems African Book of Poetry: The Next by Roy J. Cook American American Generation Poems Poetry by Victoria Chang by Nikki by David Giovanni Lehman High School Poetry Collections

Haiku in Asian Voices: The Norton The Greek Poets: English: The An anthology of new Anthology of Homer to the First Hundred poetry and prose Poetry Present Years from India, Pakistan by Margaret by Peter and Afghanistan by Jim Kacian, Ferguson Ph.D Constantine by Nic Outterside Philip Rowland, et al. High School Poetry Collections

The Spoken Living Nations, The Poets The Best Word Living Words: An Laureate Revolution Anthology of Anthology 2020 by Mark First Peoples by Elizabeth by David Lehman Eleveld Poetry Hun Schmidt by The High School Poetry Collections

Of Poetry and The Poetry of Postmodern IMPERFECT: Protest: From Impermanence, American poems about Emmett Till to Mindfulness, Poetry: mistakes Trayvon Martin and Joy A Norton by Tabatha by Phil by John Brehm Anthology Yeatts, Margarita Cushway by Paul Hoover Engle, et al. High School Poetry Collections

Native American Together in a The Haiku American Poetry to Read Sudden Anthology Songs and Aloud: A Strangeness: (Third Edition) Poems: An Collection of America's Poets by Cor van den Anthology Diverse Poems Respond to the Heuvel by Brian by M. B. Price Pandemic Swann by Alice Quinn High School Poetry Collections

The Saga of the Great Poems by I'm Rising: You Hear Me: Volsungs: With American Determined. Poems and the Saga Women: An Confident. Writing by of Ragnar Anthology Powerful. Teenage Boys Lothbrok by Susan L. by Michelle G. by Betsy by Jackson Rattiner Stradford Franco and Crawford Nina Nickles High School Poetry Collections

A Book of The Poetry of Lost In Wonder: African-American Luminous India: Anthology Self Help Poetry & Poetry: An Things: An of Poets of India Spiritual Anthology, International from 3500 B.C. to Affirmations for 1773-1927 times of hardship: Anthology of Poetry the 20th century by Joan R. by Matt by Czeslaw Milosz by Paul Smith Sherman Buonocore High School Poetry Collections

The Lontar Angles of Ascent: Word Warriors: 100 Poems to Anthology of A Norton Anthology 35 Women Break Your Indonesian of Contemporary Leaders in the Heart Poetry African American Spoken Word by Edward by John H. Poetry Revolution Hirsch McGlynn by Charles Henry by Alix Olson Rowell and Eve Ensler High School Poetry Collections

When the Light of This Same Sky: The Sun and The Rose That the World Was A Collection of Her Flowers Grew From Subdued, Our Poems from by Rupi Kaur Concrete Songs Came Around the by Tupac Shakur World Through: A Norton by Naomi Anthology of Native Nations Poetry Shihab Nye by LeAnne Howe High School Poetry Collections

The Complete Helium Collected Collected Beatles Songs: by Rudy Poems Poems: The Stories Behind Francisco by Patrick 1974-2004 Every Track Kavanagh by Rita Dove Written by the Fab Four by Steve Turner High School Poetry Collections

Selected The Essential The Prophet The Collected Poems Neruda: by Kahlil Works of Jim 1988-2013 Selected Poems Gibran Morrison: Poetry, by Seamus (Bilingual Journals, Heaney Edition) Transcripts, and by Pablo Lyrics Neruda by Jim Morrison High School Poetry Collections

Coleridge's The Prelude, Every Word Wondrous Poetry and The Recluse & You Cannot Moment: Prose The Excursion Say Selected Poetry of by Samuel by William by Iain S. Alexander Pushkin Taylor Wordsworth Thomas by Alexander Coleridge Pushkin High School Poetry Collections

Life on Mars: Apple: The Works of The Book of Poems Skin to the Core Alfred Lord Poetry for Hard by Tracy K. by Eric Tennyson Times: An Smith Gansworth by Alfred Anthology Tennyson by Robert Pinsky High School Poetry Collections

The Essential Dear Midnight A Collection of The Collected Tagore by Zack Grey Poems by Poems by Robert Frost by Sylvia Plath Rabindranath by Robert Tagore Frost High School Poetry Collections

The Complete The Hill We All the Sonnets Hamilton: John Lennon Climb and Other of Shakespeare Easy Piano Songs: All the Poems by Lin-Manuel Songs. All the by William Stories. All the by Amanda Shakespeare Miranda Lyrics. 1970―80 Gorman by Paul Du Noyer High School Poetry Collections

Night Sky with Edmund Twelve: No Matter the Exit Wounds Spenser's Poems Inspired Wreckage by Ocean Poetry by the Brothers by Sarah Kay Vuong by Edmund Grimm Spenser Fairy Tale by Andrea Blythe High School Poetry Collections

The Complete The Collected Sor Juana Inés The Complete Poetry of Poems of W. B. de la Cruz: Poems of John Edgar Allan Yeats Selected Works Keats (with an Poe by W. B. Yeats by Juana Inés Introduction by by Edgar Allan de la Cruz Robert Bridges) Poe by John Keats High School Poetry Collections

The Collected Maya Angelou: I Would Leave Say Her Name Poems of Poems Me If I Could.: A (Poems to Langston by Maya Collection of Empower) Hughes Angelou Poetry by Zetta Elliott by Langston by Halsey Hughes Joy Harjo (1951-present) Joy Harjo is a Native American of the Mvskoke Nation. She began writing poetry while a member of the Kiva Club, the Uni ver si ty of New Mexico’s Native stu dent orga ni za tion. Harjo earned her MFA at the Iowa Writ ers’ Work shop. She has taught Eng lish, Cre ative Writ ing, and Amer i can Indi an Stud ies at colleges all over the United States. Ms. Harjo is an incumbent Poet Laureate of the United States and the first Native American to hold that title. Harjo is also an accomplished musician and the editor of several well-respected collections of Native American poetry. Poetry Nonfiction

Poetry From A A Child's What Is Poetry?: The Art of Poetry to Z: A Guide for Introduction to The Essential by Christine Young Writers Poetry Guide to Reading Perrin by Paul B. by Michael and Writing Janeczko Driscoll Poems by Michael Rosen Poetry Nonfiction

Poetry For Take the Mic How to Write The 30-Day Lyric Dummies by Marc Smith Poetry: A Guided Writing Challenge by The Poetry Journal with by Ed Bell Center and Prompts to Ignite John Timpane Your Imagination by Christopher Salerno Poetry Nonfiction

The Poet's The Making of a Poetics Poetry Slam: Companion: Poem: A Norton by Aristotle The Competitive A Guide to the Anthology of (Author), Art of Performance Pleasures of Writing Poetic Forms S. H. Butcher Poetry Poetry by Eavan (Translator) by Gary Glazner by Kim Addonizio Boland and and Dorianne Laux Mark Strand Poetry Nonfiction

A Poetry How to Read a The Essential A Little History Handbook Poem: And Fall in Poet's Glossary of Poetry by Mary Oliver Love with Poetry by Edward by John Carey by Edward Hirsch Hirsch Poetry Nonfiction

Hip-Hop The Word Rhythm Webster's The Complete Rhyming Dictionary: Rhyming Rhyming Dictionary A Resource for Dictionary: Dictionary: by Kevin M. Writers, Rappers, Newest Edition Including The Mitchell Poets, and Lyricists by Merriam- Poet's Craft Book by Timothy Webster by Clement Wood Polashek Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

Born in Prague, which at that time was the capital of Bohemia, Rilke is one of the bestselling poets in the United States. His work is often described as mystical and features imagery from Greek Mythology and the Bible. Rilke’s travels took him all over Russia, France and Spain and brought him into contact with a number of the best known authors and artists of his time.

Portrait by Paula Portrait by Leonid Modersohn-Becker Pasternak Middle School Biography

Brown Girl Exquisite: The Grass Sandals: The Poet Slave of Dreaming Poetry and Life The Travels of : A Biography of Gwendolyn Basho by Jacqueline of Juan Francisco Brooks by Dawnine Woodson Manzano by Suzanne Spivak by Margarita Slade Engle Middle School Biography

Life of a Emma's Poem: A Song for Star-Spangled: Genius: The Voice of the China The Story of a Flag, Su Dongpo Statue of Liberty by Ange Zhang a Battle, and the by Demi by Linda Glaser American Anthem by Tim Grove Middle School Biography

Pablo Neruda: Liberty's Voice: 12 Poets Who My Name Is Poet of the the Emma Changed the Gabriela/Me People Lazarus Story World llamo Gabriela by Monica by Erica by Allan Morey by Monica Brown Brown and Silverman and John Parra Julie Paschkis Middle School Biography

Poet, Pilgrim, Rise!: From On Wings of Langston Rebel: The Story of Caged Bird to Words: The Hughes: Anne Bradstreet, Poet of the Extraordinary Life Young Black Poet America's First People, Maya of Emily Dickinson by Montrew Published Poet Angelou by Jennifer Berne Dunham by Katie Munday by Bethany Williams Hegedus Middle School Biography

Dave the Potter: A Girl Called A Likkle Miss Fanny Crosby: Artist, Poet, Slave Vincent: The Life Lou: How The Blind Poet by Laban Carrick Hill of Poet Edna St. Jamaican Poet by Bible Visuals Vincent Millay Louise Bennett International, by Krystyna Coverley Found Doris Stuber Poray Goddu Her Voice Moose, et al. by Nadia Hohn Middle School Biography

Poet: The Papa Is a Poet: Emily A Voice of Her Remarkable A Story About by Michael Own: The Story of Story of George Robert Frost Bedard and Phillis Wheatley, Moses Horton by Natalie S. Barbara Slave Poet by Don Tate Bober, Ammi-Joan Cooney by Kathryn Paquette, et al. Lasky Middle School Biography

Countee Cullen: 16 Words: Juan Felipe Woody Guthrie: Poet of the Harlem William Carlos Herrera: Poet of the People Renaissance Williams and From Migrant to by Bonnie by Charlotte "The Red Poet Laureate Christensen Etinde-Crompton Wheelbarrow" by Tammy and Samuel by Lisa Rogers Gagne Willard Crompton Maya Angelou (1928-2014)

Maya Angelou’s published works include a series of seven autobiographies documenting her life, volumes of poetry and essays. Amongst other events in her very full life, Ms. Angelou was active in the Civil Rights Movement, working alongside Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She recited her poem "" at the first presidential inauguration of Bill Clinton and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by in 2011. During her lifetime, Ms. Angelou was awarded over 50 honorary degrees by colleges and universities. High School Biography

Neruda: Young The Language of Amanda Gorman's The Biography Romantics Life: A Festival of Biography: Poets Everything You of a Poet by Daisy Hay by Mark Eisner by Bill Moyers, Need to Know Sekou Sundiata, About the Poet Naomi Shihab by Cypriana J. Nye, et al. Dumm High School Biography

The Language I Know Why the With a Star in Ordinary of Fire: Caged Bird My Hand: Hazards: Joan of Arc Sings Rubén Darío, A Memoir Reimagined by Maya Poetry Hero by Nikki Grimes by Stephanie Angelou by Margarita Hemphill Engle High School Biography

Bound for Glory: Poet of Lives of the Warrior Poet: The Hard- Driving, Revolution: Poets A Biography of Truth- Telling, The Making of by Michael Audre Lorde Autobiography of John Milton Schmidt by Alexis De America's Great by Nicholas Veaux Poet-Folk Singer McDowell by Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger High School Biography

The Trials of Phillis Dante’s Bones: Writing Wild: Radical Wheatley: America's How a Poet Women Poets, Wordsworth: First Black Poet and Invented Italy Ramblers, and The Poet Who Her Encounters with by Guy P. Raffa Mavericks Who Changed the World the Founding Fathers Shape How We See by Jonathan Bate by Henry Louis the Natural World Gates Jr by Kathryn Aalto High School Biography

Etched in Clay: The Poet and the The Beats: Letters to a The Life of Murderer: A Graphic Young Poet Dave, Enslaved A True Story of History by Rainer Maria Potter and Poet Verse, Violence and by Harvey Rilke, Charlie by Andrea the Art of Forgery Pekar, Paul Louth - translator Cheng by Simon Worrall Buhle, et al. High School Biography

Crazy Brave: Two-Way Christina Red Comet: The A Memoir Mirror: The Life Rossetti: Short Life and by Joy Harjo of Elizabeth Poetry in Art Blazing Art of Barrett Browning by Susan Owens Sylvia Plath by Fiona and Nicholas by Heather Clark Sampson Tromans (1939-1913) Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright, translator and member of the Irish Academy. A graduate of Queen’s College, Belfast, Heaney first began to publish his poetry during the early 1960’s while attending St Joseph's Teacher Training College. In the 1980s and 1990s he was a professor at both Harvard and Oxford Universities. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Mr. Heaney’s work mainly focused on the Irish experience and encompassed everything from rural life to the period of political unrest in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles, that spanned the 1960s to late 1990s. Happy Reading!

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