Coffee House Poetry Slam for Teens
Cumming Library
Saturday, February 14       3:00 - 4:30 p.m.




 
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Select Poetry Books for Teens
Dizzy in Your Eyes : Poems About Love
by Pat Mora

The award-winning author of A Library for Juana presents a collection of 50 poems featuring teen narrators who share their thoughts about love or heartbreak, in a volume that also explores a variety of poetic forms. 
How I Discovered Poetry
by Marilyn Nelson

The National Book Award, Newbery Honor and multiple Coretta Scott King Honor-winning poet reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and her development as an artist and young woman through 50 illuminating poems that consider such influences as the Civil Rights Movement, the "Red Scare" atomic bomb era and the Feminist Movement.
Partly Cloudy : Poems of Love and Longing
by Gary Soto

Experiencing first love, dealing with crushes and mending broken hearts are some of the topics of love and life captured in these beautiful poems, told from the point of view of young adults of both sexes and diverse ethnicities. Reprint.
Immersed in Verse : An Informative, Slightly Irreverent & Totally Tremendous Guide to Living the Poet's Life
by Allan Wolf

A guide for young poets offers advice on how to find topics, create a poem, revise a poem, start a writer's group, and get published. 
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