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• My Name Is Jason. Mine Too

  Our Story, Our Way

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  A stunning visual autobiography in verse of two crazy-talented besties, bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds and painter Jason Griffin, who could never be who they are singularly if they weren’t who they were together.

• Bless the Blood

  a Cancer Memoir

  Nehanda, Walela,

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  A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties.

• Wearing My Mother's Heart

  Thakur, Sophia,

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  Performance poet Sophia Thakur offers a powerful new collection touching on intergenerational relationships, finding your voice, and what it means to be a woman.

• You Don't Have to Be Everything

  Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves

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  Created and compiled just for young women, You Don’t Have to Be Everything is filled with works by a wide range of poets who are honest, unafraid, and skilled at addressing the complex feelings of coming-of-age, from loneliness to joy, longing to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ink Knows No Borders

  Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience

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  This collection of sixty-four poems by poets who come from all over the world shares the experience of first- and second-generation young adult immigrants and refugees.

• Light Filters in

  Poems

  Kaufman, Caroline,

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  In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience.

• The Rose That Grew From Concrete

  Shakur, Tupac, 1971-1996

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  Tupac Shakur's most intimate and honest thoughts were uncovered only after his death. This collection of deeply personal poetry is a mirror into the legendary artist's enigmatic world and its many contradictions.

• Respect the Mic

  Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry From a Chicagoland High School

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  An expansive, moving poetry anthology, representing 20 years of poetry from students and alumni of Chicago's Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club.

• Shout

  a Poetry Memoir

  Anderson, Laurie Halse,

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  In free verse, Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak, shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she's never written about before.

• Motherland

  Giday, Bitaniya,

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  The sixth collection in the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Series, Motherland is a breathtaking exploration of womanhood and blackness framed by family, immigration, and history.

• Voices in the Air

  Poems for Listeners

  Nye, Naomi Shihab,

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  This volume of almost one hundred original poems is a stunning and engaging tribute to the diverse voices past and present that comfort us, compel us, lead us, and give us hope.

• Poems to See by

  a Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry

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  A fresh twist on 24 classic poems, these visual interpretations by comic artist Julian Peters will change the way you see the world.

• Inheritance

  a Visual Poem

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad—the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance.

• Call Us What We Carry

  Poems

  Gorman, Amanda, 1998-

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  Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Poems to Live Your Life by

  Riddell, Chris,

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  Curated by artist and writer Chris Riddell, Poems to Live Your Life By is a beautifully illustrated collection of poems for readers young and old to carry with them as they grow.