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Intenet Sites |
The Iternet Poetry Archive: Focuses on contemporary authors. |
| Poetry Archives: This huge database offers more than 5,000 poems by 150 authors. | |
| Bartleby: Poetry anthologies are browsable | |
| Poetry.com: Offers a list of the 100 Greatest Poems Ever Written. | |
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Poetry
Novels
Novels in poetry format are different from what we think of as poetry books. They tell a full story in free verse or through a series of interconnected poems. This list was compiled using the American Library Association web site page "Slammin!@your library. |
| Compilations | Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century
Art Broken Hearts Healing: Young Poets Speak Out on Divorce Roots and Flowers: Poets and Poems on Family |
| Individual Poets | Gary Soto's New and Selected Poems |
| Free Verse | Make Lemonade and True Believer (Wolff ) |
| Interconnected Poems | Jump Ball The Taking of Room 114: A Hostage Drama in Poems Split Image |
| Newbery Winner 1998 Historical Fic. |
Out of the Dust (Hesse) Witness (Hesse) Frenchtown Summer (Cormier) |
| Mysteries | Who Killed Mr. Chippendale Foreign Exchange (Mel Glenn) |
| Humor | Love That Dog (Creech) |
| Realistic | Who Will Tell My Brother (Marlene Carvell) An Indian
Mascot is changed through the efforts of an American Indian.
After the Death of Anna Gonzalez (Terri Fields) A school copes with the suicide of a student. Brimstone Journals (Ron Koertge) Look inside a school when a student lists those he wished to kill. Stop Pretending! What Happened the Year My Big Sister Went Crazy. (Sones) Jinx (Wild) Jen finds herself with the love she finds in a completely unexpected place. |
| NonFiction | Learning to Swim (Turner) Child abuse theme.
You Remind Me of You (Corrigan) A young woman's fight for survival Carver: A Life in Poems (Nelson) |