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April is National Poetry Month! To celebrate, here are some of KDL staff’s favorite teen poetry books. Enjoy!

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A Wreath for Emmett Till (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards))
Marilyn Nelson

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Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
Stephanie Hemphill

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Tough Boy Sonatas
Curtis Crisler

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Crush: Love Poems
Kwame Alexander

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19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
Naomi Shihab Nye

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What My Mother Doesn't Know
Sonya Sones

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Shakespeare Bats Cleanup
Ron Koertge

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Home of the Brave
Katherine Applegate

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Walking on Glass
Alma Fullerton

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Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems
John Grandits

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The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation
Billy Collins

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Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose
Naomi Shihab Nye

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I Don't Want To Be Crazy (Push)
Samantha Schutz

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Keeping the Night Watch
Hope Anita Smith

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Love That Dog
Sharon Creech

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