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

	A Wreath for Emmett Till (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards)) by Marilyn Nelson Catalog Link	print
	Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill Catalog Link
	Tough Boy Sonatas by Curtis Crisler Catalog Link
	Crush: Love Poems by Kwame Alexander Catalog Link
	19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye Catalog Link
	What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones Catalog Link
	Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ron Koertge Catalog Link
	Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate Catalog Link
	Walking on Glass by Alma Fullerton Catalog Link
	Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits Catalog Link
	The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation by Billy Collins Catalog Link
	Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose by Naomi Shihab Nye Catalog Link
	I Don't Want To Be Crazy (Push) by Samantha Schutz Catalog Link
	Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith Catalog Link
	Love That Dog by Sharon Creech Catalog Link