Words, Spoken and Otherwise... Poetry... and a whole lot more!

 

Believe Me, I Know - WritersCorps Youth

Broken Hearts…Healing: Young Poets Speak Out on Divorce
     - Edited by Tom  Worthen, Ph. D.

Bum Rush the Page:  A Def Poetry Jam
     - Edited by Tony Medina & Louis Reyes Rivera

Carver: A Life in Poems - by Marilyn Nelson

Crash Boom Love: A Novel in Verse - by Juan Felipe Herrera

Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People
     - by Nikki Giovanni

Flying with Broken Wings - by Gonca Esendemir

Foolish/Unfoolish: Reflections on Love - by Ashanti

Hip Hoptionary - by Alonzo Westbrook

Hoop Queens - by Charles R. Smith Jr.

Journals - by Kurt Cobain

Learning to Swim: A Memoir - by Ann Turner

Listen Up! : Spoken Word Poetry - Edited by Zoe Anglesey

Shakespeare Bats Cleanup - by Ron Koertge

Movin’ - Edited by Dave Johnson

A Night Without Armor - by Jewel

The Pain Tree and Other Teenage Angst-Ridden Poetry
     - Collected and Illustrated by Esther Pearl Watson and Mark Todd

Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems - from Writerscorps

Poems from Homeroom - by Kathi Appelt

Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry
     - Edited by Gary Mex Glazner

The Song Shoots Out of My Mouth: A Celebration of Music
     - by Jaime Adoff

Quiet Storm: Voices of Young Black Poets 
     - Selected by Lydia Omolola Okutoro

The Rose that Grew from Concrete - by Tupac Shakur

Slam - Edited by Cecily Von Ziegesar

Slow Dance Heart Break Blues - by Arnold Adoff

The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip-Hop,
     and the   Poetry of a New Generation
     - Edited by Mark Eleveld

Wham! It’s a Poetry Jam: Discovering Performance Poetry
     - by Sara Holbrook

What Book!? : Buddha Poems from Beat to Hip-Hop
     - Edited by Gary Gach

What Have You Lost? -Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye

The World According to Dog: Poems and Teen Voices
     - by Joyce Sidman

Yes, Yes, Y’all: The Experience Music Project Oral History
     of Hip- Hop’s First Decade
     - by Jim Fricke and Charlie Ahearn

You Remind Me of You: A Poetry Memoir
     - by Eireann Corrigan

   

 

Researched and compiled by Jeri Triano
Edited by Linda Feaster