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Nonfiction > Teen/Young Adult > Poetry

Jaime Adoff
The Song Shoots Out of My Mouth: A Celebration of Music
Kwame Alexander
Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
Crush: Love Poem for Teenagers         
Maya Angelou
Now Sheba Sings the Song 
And Still I Rise
Arna Bontemps
Personals  
American Negro Poetry
Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Reader 
Hold Fast to Dreams
Zetta Elliott
Say Her Name
Sharon Flake
You Don’t Even Know Me: Stories and Poems About Boys 
Langston Hughes
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times 
June Jordan
Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood 
Amyra León
Concrete Kids (Pocket Change Collective)
Angela Shelf Medearis
Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections  
Marilyn Nelson
How I Discovered Poetry
A Wreath for Emmett Till 
Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem 
The Freedom Business: Including a Narrative of the Life & Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa  
Mama’s Promises: Poems

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