It's time again to post my annual "sneak peek" list of all the poetry for young people that will be published in the coming year. This includes poetry collections, anthologies and novels in verse. In addition, I plan to talk with publishers at the ALA Midwinter conference next week and update with more titles I learn about there. So, these are the titles that I know about thus far. If you know about other poetry for young readers set to be published this year (or have changes to suggest about these titles below), please let me know (in the comments). I'll be updating this list all year long, so it becomes a resource as you look for the latest poetry books for young people. There's a quick link to this post in the menu on the right-hand side of this blog, too, where I have links to all my previous "sneak peek" lists. As always, I'm so excited to find, get, and read all of these books! Congrats poets and yay for poetry readers!
Alene, Catherine. 2017. The Sky Between You and Me. Sourcebooks.
Alexander, Kwame. 2017. Animal Ark. National Geographic.
Alexander, Kwame. 2017. Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets. Candlewick.
Alexander, Kwame. 2017. Swish!: Aim, Shoot, Rebound, and Score in This Game Called Life. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Atkins, Jeannine. 2017. Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis. Simon & Schuster.
Cartaya, Pablo. 2017. The Epic Fall of Arturo Zamora. Penguin/Viking.
Clickard, Carrie. 2017. Dumpling Dreams: Joyce Chen and Her Peking Ravioli. Simon & Schuster.
Colby, Rebecca. 2017. Motor Goose: Rhymes That Go! Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan.
Dalton, Pamela. 2017. Under the Silver Moon. Chronicle/Handprint.
Derby, Sally. 2017. A New School Year. Charlesbridge.
Elliott, David. 2017. Bull. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Engle, Margarita. 2017. Bravo! Poems About Amazing Latinos. Ill. by Rafael Lopez. Macmillan/Henry Holt.
Engle, Margarita. 2017. All the Way to Havana. Ill. by Mike Curato. Holt.
Engle, Margarita. 2017. Forest World. Atheneum.
Engle, Margarita. 2017. Morning Star Horse/ El Caballo Lucero. HBE Publishers.
Engle, Margarita. 2017. Miguel’s Brave Knight. Ill. by Raul Colon. Peachtree.
Forrest (Esenwine), Matt. 2017. Flashlight Night. Boyds Mills Press.
Frost, Helen. 2017. When My Sister Started Kissing. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Frost, Helen. 2017. Wake Up. Ill. by Rick Lieder. Candlewick.
Green, Shari. 2017. Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess. Pajama Press.
Grimes, Nikki. 2017. One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomsbury.
Hopkins, Lee Bennett. Ed. 2017. I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage. Lee & Low.
Hughes, Langston. 2017. That Is My Dream! Ill. by Daniel Miyares. Random House/ Schwartz & Wade.
Jensen, Kelly. 2017. Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World. Algonquin.
Latham, Irene and Waters, Charles. 2017. Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship. Millbrook Press.
Lewis, J. Patrick. 2017. Keep a Pocket in Your Poem. Ill. by Johanna Wright. Boyds Mills Press/Wordsong.
Lewis, J. Patrick. 2017. Make the Earth Your Companion. Ill. by Anna and Elena Balbusso. Chronicle.
Magliaro, Elaine. 2017. Things to Do. Chronicle.
McKissack, Patricia. 2017. Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing and Shout; Dance, Spin, and Turn it Out! Ill. by Brian Pinkney. Random House Schwartz & Wade.
Mora, Pat. 2017. Bookjoy, Wordjoy. Lee & Low.
Oliver, Lin. 2017. Steppin’ Out: Playful Rhymes for Toddler Times. Ill. by Tomie de Paola. Penguin/Paulsen.
Perkins, Useni Eugene. 2017. Hey Black Child. Ill. by Bryan Collier. Little, Brown.
Powell, Patricia Hruby. 2017. Loving Vs. Virginia. Chronicle.
Powell, Patricia Hruby. 2017. Struttin’ with Some Barbecue. Charlesbridge.
Salas, Laura Purdie. 2017. If You Were the Moon. Ill. by Jaime Kim. Lerner/Millbrook.
Schaub, Michelle. 2017. Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers’ Market. Ill. by Amy Huntington. Charlesbridge.
Sidman, Joyce. 2017. Round. Ill. by Taeeun Yoo. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Silverstein, Shel. 2017. [Untitled thus far]. HarperCollins.
Singer, Marilyn. 2017. Every Month’s New Year. Ill. by Susan Roth. Lee & Low.
Singer, Marilyn. 2017. Feel the Beat: Dance Poems that Zing from Salsa to Swing. Dial.
VanDerwater, Amy. 2017. Read! Read! Read! Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press.
Vardell, Sylvia and Wong, Janet. 2017. Here We Go: A Poetry Friday Power Book. Pomelo Books.
Vardell, Sylvia and Wong, Janet. 2017. Pet Crazy: A Poetry Friday Power Book. Pomelo Books.
Weston, Robert Paul. 2017. Sakura’s Cherry Blossoms. Ill. by Misa Saburi. Random House Canada.
Wilson, Karma. 2017. Dormouse Dreams. Ill. by Renata Liwska. Disney-Hyperion.
Wissinger, Tamera Will. 2017. Gone Camping. Ill. by Matthew Cordell. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Yolen, Jane and Lewis, J. Patrick. 2017. Prehistoric Last Laughs. Ill. by Charlesbridge.
Yolen, Jane. 2017. Thunder Underground. Ill. by Josée Masse. Boyds Mills Press.
BTW, this list includes books that have SOME poetry, but may not be entirely poetry. And I'll keep updating this list as I hear of new titles to add.
I'm also so proud to have two books coming out this year as part of the Poetry Friday Power Book series with Janet Wong. Our first in this series, You Just Wait, came out last year and has earned an "NCTE Notable Poetry Book" distinction. So excited about that! Our second book in the series officially launches on Monday, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. That book is entitled, Here We Go and is a story in poems about four young friends who are coping with challenges at home and at school and muster their energies to become gardening activists! Plus, the book includes activities for young people to inspire creativity, critical thinking, and poetry writing.
Meanwhile, head over to Keri Recommends, to see what else is going on this Poetry Friday!