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I=92m sorry it=92s taken me so long to post a hit on suggestions for poetry for teens. I didn=92t get many responses, but the ones I got were terrific! Thanks to Tony and Melissa! Katie Voss -You hear me? : poems and writing by teenage boys / edited by Betsy Franco. -Things I have to tell you : poems and writing by teenage girls / edited by Betsy Franco -With their eyes : September 11th : the view from a high school at ground zero / edited by Annie Thoms -What book!? : Buddha poems from beat to hiphop / edited by Gary Gach -A lion's hunger : poems of first love / by Ann Turner -Unsettling America : an anthology of contemporary multicultural poetry / edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan -Her blue body everything we know : earthling poems, 1965-1990 complete / Alice Walker. -A fire in my hands : a book of poems / Gary Soto. -Fearless Fernie : hanging out with Fernie and me : poems / by Gary Soto -Behind the wheel : poems about driving / Janet S. Wong. -19 varieties of gazelle : poems of the Middle East / by Naomi Shihab Nye -The inner city Mother Goose / Eve Merriam -Sacred fire : poetry and prose / by Nancy Wood -In search of color everywhere : a collection of African-American poetry / edited by E. Ethelbert Miller -Laughing out loud, I fly : poems in English and Spanish / Juan Felipe Herrera -Leaving Yuba City : new and selected poems / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -Cool salsa : bilingual poems on growing up Hispanic in the United States / edited by Lori M. Carlson -Slow dance heartbreak blues / Arnold Adoff -Split image : a story in poems / Mel Glenn. -Joyful noise : poems for two voices / Paul Fleischman -Listen up! : spoken word poetry / edited by Zo=EB Anglesey -The Brimstone journals / Ron Koertge -The invisible ladder : an anthology of contemporary American poems for young readers / with the poet's own photos and commentary ; edited by Liz Rosenberg. -Heart to heart : new poems inspired by twentieth-century American art / edited by Jan Greenberg Also, Bronx Masquerade, a novel by Nikki Grimes, is about an inner city English class where the teacher has "open mike" day the last Friday of each month for the students to read their poems. ---- Tony Doyle, Librarian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _Blushing: expressions of love in poems and letters_ collected by Paul Janeczko which has great variety of poems and a cover that will attract teenaged readers (ok, probably girls) also, I love the collection _Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle_ for the excellent variety of pre-teen and teenage-level poetry. read aloud a few--wow. the "Poetry for Young People" series features one author per book, 64 pages with illustrations--very non-threatening for readers. Include Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frost, Dickinson, cummings, maya Angelou (_Complete Collected Peoms_) also popular here for their size and teemage-freindliness are: Movin': Teen Poets take voice, and Slam! (by Alloy) These are good titles: Dover pub: _Best remembered poems_ macrone. bursh up your poetry harmon. the classic hundred poems poetry out loud. I am the darker brother: and anthology of modern poems by african americans Melissa Altman Information Specialist/Librarian Katie Voss, Librarian St. Benedict High School Chicago, IL kvoss@stbenedict.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/el-announce/ LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------