Poetry List to take to the library:

Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out
Bette

Arnold Adoff:

I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans

Touch the Poem

Love Letters

Anything by Ralph Fletcher: check out his link at www.ralphfletcher.com

I Am Wings

Family Matters

Buried Alive

Have You Been to the Beach Lately?

Poetry Matters: How to Write a Poem from the Inside Out

Kristine O'Connell George  

Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems  NEW!

Old Elm Speaks   perfect personification.

Little Dog Poems

Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems

The Great Frog Race and Other Poems

All of Nikki Grimes' terrific books:

Bronx Masquerade (midgrade +)

Aneesa Lee and the Weaver's Gift

Shoe Magic

Talkin' About Bessie

Come Sunday

Pocketful of Poems

My Man Blue

Meet Danitra Brown

Danitra Brown Leaves Town

Jazmin's Notebook

Lee Bennett Hopkins

Been to Yesterdays: Poem of a Life

ALL his marvelous anthologies

Paul Janeczko

How to write Poetry

ALL his Anthologies are perfect for the exploration of a wide variety of works! I used them all every year!

Walter Dean Myers

Brown Angel: An Album of Pictures and Verse

Angel to Angel: A Mother's Gift of Love

Naomi Shihab Nye

What Have You Lost?

I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: Paired Poems by Men & Women

Words Under the Words: Selected Poems

Come With Me: Poems for a Journey

19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East

Cynthia Rylant

Something Permanent

Soda Jerk

Waiting to Waltz

Joyce Sidman:
Song of the Waterboatman

Just Us Two: Animal Dads

Eureka!

The World According to Dog

Marilyn Singer
Monster Museum

Footprints on the Roof

Central Heating

Turtle in July

Fireflies at Midnight

The Company of Crows

Sonya Sones  (young adult)

Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

What My Mother Doesn't Know

Janet S. Wong

Night Garden: Poems from the World of Dreams

Behind the Wheel: Poems About Driving

Tracie's Books:

Sketches from a Spy Tree

Reaching for Sun

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Books to help teachers teach poetry:

A Celebration of Bees: By Barbara Juster Esbenson

Awakening the Heart by Georgia Heard

Getting the Knack: Poetry Writing Exercises by Stephen Dunning and William Stafford
The MOST useful book for the classroom. Detailed with student examples

Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out
Better for students who have some experience with the form, straightforward written directly to student poets.

Poem Making by Myra Cohn Livingston

NOT for kids (mostly), but for the adults who need refreshed, my favorite poets & books:

Billy Collins: Picnic, Lightening,  Sailing Alone Around the Room, Nine Horses,
Questions About Angels

Sharon Olds: ALL her books

Jane Kenyon: Otherwise

Mary Oliver: Collected Poems (I love her book A Poetry Handbook for writing)

Jane Hirshfield: The Ink Dark Moon (Love poems from the Japanese: spare & lovely)

Deborah Garrison: A Working Girl Can't Win  (HILARIOUS!)

Sandra Cisneros: Woman Hollering Creek & Loose Woman

r for students who have some experience with the form, straightforward written directly to student poets.

Poem Making by Myra Cohn Livingston