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Poetry for Teens

Memoirs in verse and poetry collections for teens.

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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.
    Book, 2022New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022. — TEEN 811.6 REYNOLD
  • 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.
    Book, 2024New York : Kokila, 2024. — TEEN 811.6 NEHANDA
  • Performance poet Sophia Thakur offers a powerful new collection touching on intergenerational relationships, finding your voice, and what it means to be a woman.
    Book, 2023Somerville Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023. — TEEN 821.92 THAKUR
  • You Don't Have to Be Everything

    Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves

    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…
    Book, 2021New York : Workman Publishing, [2021] — TEEN 808.1083 YOU DON
  • Ink Knows No Borders

    Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience

    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.
    Book, 2019New York : Seven Stories Press, [2019] — TEEN 811.608 INK KNO
  • 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.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Harper, [2018] — TEEN 811.6 KAUFMAN
  • 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.
    Book, 2009New York : Pocket Books, 2009. — 811.54 SHAKUR
  • Respect the Mic

    Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry From a Chicagoland High School

    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.
    Book, 2022New York : Penguin Workshop, 2022. — TEEN 811.008 RESPECT
  • 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.
    Book, 2019New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019. — TEEN 811.6 ANDERSO
  • 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.
    Book, 2021Everett, WA : Poetry NW Editions, [2021] — TEEN 811.6 GIDAY
  • 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.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — TEEN 811.54 NYE
  • Poems to See by

    a Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry

    A fresh twist on 24 classic poems, these visual interpretations by comic artist Julian Peters will change the way you see the world.
    Graphic Novel, 2020Walden, New York : Plough Publishing House, 2020. — TEEN 808.81 POEMS T
  • 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.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — TEEN 811.6 ACEVEDO
  • 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…
    Book, 2021New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021. — TEEN 811.6 GORMAN
  • 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.
    Book, 2018New York : Amulet Books, 2018. — TEEN 808.81 RIDDELL