Poetry for YA's --------------- Adoff, Arnold, ed. I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans Slow Dance, Heart Break Blues Berry, James. When I Dance: Poems by James Berry. Berry, S. L., ed. E. E. Cummings. Blum, Joshua, ed. United States of Poetry Brown, Kurt, ed. Drive, They Said: Poems about Americans and Cars Carlson, Lori, ed. Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems Carroll, Joyce and Edward Wilson, ed. Poetry After Lunch: Poems to Read Aloud. Dahl, Roald. Fractured Fairy Tales. Duffy, Carol Ann, ed. I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine: Poems for Young Feminists Dunning, Stephen, Edward Leuders, and Hugh Smith, eds. Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle... And Other Modern Verse. Some Haystacks Don't Even Have Any Needle...And Other Complete Modern Poems. Fleishman , Paul. I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices. Fletcher, Ralph. Room Enough for Love Frost, Robert, and Peter Koeppen, illus. A Swinger of Birches: Poems of Robert Frost for Young People. Giovanni, Nikki, ed. Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems Glenn, Mel. Class Dismissed! High School Poems Class Dismissed II. The Taking of Room 114 Jump Ball: Basketball Season Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? Gordon, Ruth, ed. Pierced by a Ray of Sun: Poems about the Times We Feel Alone Under All Silences: Shades of Love Greenfield, Eloise. Honey, I Love, and Other Love Poems Hempel, Amy and Jim Shepard ed. Unleashed : Poems by Writers' Dogs. Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust Hirschfelder, Arlene B., and Beverly R. Singer, eds. Rising Voices: Writings of Young Native Americans Hull, Robert, ed. Breaking Free: An Anthology of Human Rights Poetry. Janeczko, Paul B., ed. Going over to Your Place: Poems for Each Other Looking for Your Name: A Collection of Contemporary Poems. Poetspeak: In Their Work, About Their Work: A Selection. Preposterous: Poems of Youth. Don't forget to fly Strings Starlight Hotel Poetry From A to Z: A Guide for Young Writers Johnson, James Weldon, The Creation. Kerdian, David, ed. Beat Voices: an anthology of Beat Poetry Koch, Kenneth, and Kate Farrell, eds. Talking to the Sun: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People. Larrick, Nancy, ed. Bring Me All of Your Dreams. Livingston, Myra Cohn, ed. A Time to Talk: Poems of Friendship. Call Down the Moon: Poems of Music Lyne, Sandford, ed. Ten-Second Rainshowers: Poems by Young People Marcus, Leonard S., ed. Lifelines: A Poetry Anthology Patterned on the Stages of Life Medearis, Angela Shelf. Skin Deep, and Other Teenage Reflections Merriam, Eve. Inner City Mother Goose. Miller, E. Ethelbert, ed. In Search of Color Everywhere. Morrison, Lillian, ed. Rhythm Road: Poems to Move to. Nye, Naomi Shihab and Paul B. Janeczko, ed. I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You Nye, Naomi Shihab, ed. This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World Peacock, Molly, Elise Paschen, Neil Neches ed. Poetry in Motion : 100 Poems from the Subways and Buses. Rosenberg, Liz, ed. The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers Earth Shattering Poems Shel Silverstein Other notes: "Poetry.com" is a favorite site to learn about contemporary poets' styles by reading the daily poem and provides links to information about the poets. Ed Sullivan, Senior Project Librarian at The New York Public Library Connecting Libraries and Schools Project (CLASP), will have an article about poetry for middle school kids coming out in the November (?) Book Links. There is a nice article on poetry in the July, 1998 issue of Book Links, including a list of YA anthologies. It is entitled "Poetry for Every Child" and was written by Megan Schliesman. The YA titles are on pp38-9. Ms. Schliesman also has an interview with Naomi Shihab Nye, who has put together several poetry anthologies, in the same issue of Book Links. (July 1998) Also, you might suggest to the teacher the possibility of allowing the kids to include one set of song lyrics - in doing poetry with our junior high, they really seem to relate to the idea of music lyrics as poetry & it helps them see poetry as something that is real & relevant to their lives instead of just something to study in school. It was also suggested that classes do Readers Theater with some poetry, especially the works of Mel Glenn and Paul Fleishman's. I Am Phoenix.