Thanks to all for the great suggestions:
Blue Lipstick John Grandits
Technically, It's Not My Fault John Grandits
F.E.G. Robin Hirsch
Hoop Queens Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Buried Alive Ralph Fletcher
Eureka! Poems about Inventors Joyce Sidman
Behold! the Bold Umbrellaphant Jack Prelutsky
After the Death of Anna Gonzales - Fields, Terri
The rose that grew from concrete - Shakur, Tupac
The spoken word revoluction (slam, hip hop and the poetry of a new generation
Paint me like I am ...teen poems from writerscorps
I don't know if you would want to classify Shel Silverstein as
"current," but my sr. high bunch keep his books checked out all the
time!
The Rose that Grew from Concrete
From Totems to Hip Hop
Tough Boy Sonatas
19 Varieties of Gazelle (Naomi Shihab Nye)
Naomi Shihab Nye: 19 Varieties of Gazelle; Honeybee; also her searing "Letters My
Prez Will Not Be Sending" http://edisk.fandm.edu/wrs/NaomiShihabNye.pdf
<http://mail.ccpsnet.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://edisk.fandm.edu/wrs/NaomiShihabNye.pdf>
Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School eds. Anderson and
Hassler
Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni
Sadder Than Water, Samih Al-Qasim
Behind the Wheel: Poems about Driving by Wong
Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and writings by teenage girls, ed. Betsy Franco
(James' mother)
A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Nelson
Pablo Neruda's "Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair" ought to appeal
to the lovelorn
Shel Silverstein. Kids love him--even older ones
Billy Collins Poetry 180 books were intended for this purpose during his tenure as
Poet Laureate. In general, it seems that the anthologies are of higher interest
that books by individual poets.
Good luck!
Try any collection by Naomi Shihab Nye
Carol DeMasi
Library Media Specialist,
Chesterfield Community High School
Chesterfield County, Virginia
Carol_DeMasi@ccpsnet.net
804-768-6156 ext 5119
<mailto:Carol_DeMasi@ccpsnet.net>
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