Celebrate National Poetry Month!

Check out the Young Adult Department's new display for Poetry Month:

Connor, Leslie
Dead On Town Line: From the afterlife Cassie tells the story of her murder and her meeting with another ghost, a young girl who was murdered years before in free verse.
YA Connor

Fields, Terri
After the Death of Anna Gonzales: This novel in verse reflects the different voices of those Anna left behind when she committed suicide.
YA Fields

Grimes, Nikki
Bronx Masquerade: A high school English class becomes the space for Friday afternoon poetry slams in this story interspersed with poems by Nikki Grimes.
YA Grimes

High, Linda Oatman
Sister Slam and the Poetic Motormouth Roadtrip: In a novel told in slam verse, narrator Laura and her best friend Twig take a road trip in order to compete at a slam poetry event.
YA High

Johnson, Dave
Movin’: Teen Poets Take Voice: A collection of poems culled from the poetry written by students at workshops supported by the New York Public Library and Poets House.
811.08 MOV

Major, Kevin
Ann and Seamus: The story of Ann Harvey and how she helped to save passengers from a shipwreck off the coast of Newfoundland. Told in verse, the book alternates between Ann’s voice and that of one of the survivors of the shipwreck.
YA Major

Myers, Walter Dean
Here in Harlem: poems in many voices: Myers has written a collection of poems using different viewpoints of the Harlem experience.
811 MYE

Nye, Naomi Shibab
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the
Middle East: In this collection of poems Naomi Shibab Nye writes of Arab-American life, family, and the West Bank.
811 NYE

Nye, Naomi Shibab
What Have You Lost?: Compiled by Naomi Shibab Nye, these are poems about lost items, friendships, and memories.
808.81 WHA

Soto, Gary
New and Selected Poems: A collection of previously published and unpublished poems that demonstrate the different facets of Soto’s writing.
811 SOT

Let us know if there are some we missed!