YA Poetry Month 2007

	Learn more about YA Poetry Month with titles selected for YA guys and gals. All of these library materials are owned by the Metropolitan Library System. Log on to CyberMars with your library card to reserve any titles that interest you, or ask a librarian for assistance.
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	Light-Gathering Poems (H. Holt, c2000) Shelf Number: J808.81/L723l A compilation of poetry that embraces light and the beauty of illumination includes works by such authors as Robert Frost and Jane Kenyon.
	Love: Selected Poems Cummings, E. E. (Hyperion Books for Children, c2005) Shelf Number: 811/C971lo YOUNG ADULT A collection of poems by the American poet explores the complexities of love, romance, and seduction, using innovative forms of expression enhanced with artwork from an award-winning illustrator.
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	My Father's Summers: A Daughter's Memoir Appelt, Kathi (Henry Holt and Co., c2004) Shelf Number: J813/AP6768Zm/BIOGRAPHY A series of prose poems describes the author's life while she was growing up in Houston, Texas, from her eleventh birthday in 1965 through her eighteenth in 1972, and beyond, communicating the disappointment and the delight of growing up in a loving, imperfect family.
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	Poems from Homeroom: A Writer's Place to Start Appelt, Kathi (H.Holt, c2002) Shelf Number: 811/AP6468p YOUNG ADULT A collection of original poems about school life and the experiences of young people includes creative writing exercises to help teen writers begin poems of their own and inspire them to write about their own lives and experiences.
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	A Wreath for Emmett Till Nelson, Marilyn (Houghton Mifflin, c2005) Shelf Number: J811/N428w A sequence of fifteen interlinked sonnets pay tribute to a young man who sparked the Civil Rights Movement in 1955 Mississippi--fourteen-year-old Emmitt Till, an African-American boy who was lynched for whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted.
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