April is Poetry Month
April 2021
April is National Poetry Month! Find great books to recommend to students and/or to use in your lessons. This resource includes poetry books for our youngest readers, anthologies for teens, novels in verse for middle school and teens, as well as a list of websites to find poetry resources.
Enjoy the month!
Poetry Books
Poetry Books for Elementary
NEW Anthologies for Teens
Anthologies for Teens Not to Be Missed!
Novels in Verse for Middle School
Novels in Verse for Young Adults
New Books Released in 2020 & 2021
Novels in Verse Pre-2020
Works Cited
Bird, Elizabeth. “31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Children's Poetry.” A Fuse #8 Production, School Library Journal, 31 Dec. 2020, blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2020/12/16/31-days-31-lists-2020-childrens-poetry/.
Hacking, Jill. “14 Books in Verse You Need to Read ASAP.” Riveted, Simon Teen, 7 Apr. 2020, rivetedlit.com/2020/04/07/9-books-in-verse-you-need-to-read/.
Martin, Shea, et al. “8 Young Adult Novels in Verse That Brought Me Back to Life in 2020.” Electric Literature, 21 Dec. 2020, electricliterature.com/8-young-adult-novels-in-verse-that-brought-me-back-to-life-in-2020/.