Pathfinder for Young Adult Poetry
to those young beautiful hearts

About Poetry
Hongfen Fu
2003, Iowa City

                                                             
                                           
                            
Introduction:

This pathfinder will help high school students or other young people who have great interests in American literature and poetry learn how to appreciate poetry, especially the young adult poetry through the collections at the Iowa City Public Library (ICPL) as well as other online or print resources about YA poems. Here I divided the YA Poetry into different categories showed above, which include reference, American history, classic poetry, multicultural poetry, novems, YA writings, poetry on Audio/Video, and online poetry, etc. I have listed the title, author/editor, call numbers, and locations of all the books I have included in this tool. I believe students will have a comprehensive understanding on American poetry for young people through my pathfinder.

Subject Headings in the ICPL Catalog:

Young Adult Poetry
Young Adult Poetry African American Authors
Young Adult Poetry American
Young Adult Poetry American Juvenile Nonfiction
Young Adult Poetry English
Young Adult Poetry Juvenile Nonfiction
Young Adult Poetry Women Authors

Most of the relative books are located on the second floor (some are on the first floor “Children’s Room”) and call numbers begin with 808.xxx… or 811.xxx or YOUNG ADULT FICTION/Author.

Here is the link to the library online catalog: http://www.icpl.org/
People can access it either by using the computers inside the library or at home.

Reference Books & Specialized Dictionaries:

Poetry about America:

Single-Author Collections of Poetry:

Anthologies of Classic Poetry:

Anthology of Contemporary Poetry for Teenagers:

Multicultural Poetry:

Novels Written in Verse:

Poem Written by Young Adult:

How to Write Poetry:

Audio/Video:

Online Resources for Young Adult Poetry:

• AHA!Poetry
(http://www.ahapoetry.com)
Everything you ever wanted to know about cinquains, haiku, tanka, ghazal, sijo (Korean poetry more ancient than haiku, 3 lines, 14-16 syllables each) and more.

• Poetry for Kids
(http://www.poetry4kids.com/index.html)
Find poems by published author Kenn Nesbitt online.

• The Poet's Corner
(http://www.geocities.com/spanoudi/poems)
Full text of poems with an author index, title index, and subject index.
Has 5, 753 poem, 659 poets, and pictures of 120 poets.

• Favorite Poems Project
(http://www.favoritepoem.org)
Project by Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky to "discover America's Beloved poems."

• The Atlantic Online's Poetry Pages
(http://www.theatlantic.com)
Many articles on poetry, poets, the state of the art, etc.