Poetry

Nunca es tarde para otorgarte una segunda oportunidad. Por mucho tiempo te has juzgado, y en este viaje, uno de los destinos será el perdón.

Set in New York City in the ’90s, Angela Shanté’s poems and stories paint a mosaic of childhood that is shaped by the past and reverberates into the present.

Rex Ogle’s companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother’s legacy....

This stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds' rallying cry to the dreamers of the world....

The term Apple is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly red on the outside, white on the inside. Eric Gansworth tells his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere....

A New York Times best seller and one of 2019's best-reviewed books, a poetic memoir and call to action from the award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson....

Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her when her friends don't invite her to parties....

Nima wishes she were someone else. She doesn’t feel understood by her mother, who grew up in a different land. She doesn’t feel accepted in her suburban town; yet somehow, she isn't different enough to belong elsewhere....

In this history in verse, acclaimed poet Margarita Engle has created a lyrical, powerful portrait of Cuba....

Best friendship blossoms into something more in this queer literary romance....

While society often assigns the label “knucklehead” to kids with attitude problems, this brilliant and electric poetry collection by spoken word poet and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. subverts that narrow way of thinking and empathizes with young people who are misunderstood and unheard.

Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there’s more to her story than the whispers that follow her through the hallways at school—whispers that splinter into a million different insults that mean: a girl who has had sex....

A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties, for fans of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout....

In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender....

In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman - known as @poeticpoison - does what she does best: reflects our own experiences back at us and makes us feel less alone, one exquisite and insightful piece at a time....

In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad—the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance....

A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best friend. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Nikki Grimes....

These Are the Words is the empowering first-ever YA feminist collection written and illustrated by international poetry sensation Nikita Gill, containing all the things she wished someone had told her when she was a growing up....

Elvira Sastre revela en este libro su mundo interior y sus experiencias más íntimas. El diálogo que se establece entre el texto y las ilustraciones de Emba logra una composición estética única, digna de coleccionistas....

Collected by international poetry sensation Nikita Gill, Slam! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This is a joyful celebration of the ground-breaking poets making their voices heard in the spoken word scene....

A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong Black writers. A beautiful sophomore novel from a critically acclaimed author and poet that explores how words have the power to shape and uplift our world even in the midst of pain....

A YA contemporary sapphic romance told in verse, by the critically praised author of A Million Quiet Revolutions, Ode to My First Car is about a bisexual teen girl who falls in and out of love over the course of one fateful summer....

Award-winning Author Lang Leav presents Poemsia, an inspiring YA novel that will make you laugh, cry, and want to share with all your friends....

Fifty-four poems, all in different voices, written by one outstanding author....

From groundbreaking and award-winning poet Koleka Putuma comes an empowering and uplifting collection of poems about figuring out who you are and embracing it....

Daydreaming can be a fun thing to do, unless your dreams are split in two.

“Hello, open the door, please” the girl cried Who are you? I’m not letting you inside The woman told the crying girl standing outside “No one lives here anymore everyone has died”.

This was the darkest place I’d ever seen, the little bit of light didn’t do much good The smell was a wretched stench, a death like aroma of rotting flesh and wood Under the lamppost I noticed a creepy figure, then frozen in one place I stood It seemed like if IT had the chance to hurt me it would, and easily could

My Truth is all I know, my Trauma was hoping this far it wouldn't go, my Pain has become a BIG part of me, though everyday my mind aches to grow.

Pretty privilege looks extremely ugly...