Poetry

So the best part about this blog is that I am doing the entire post using my smart phone.  This week we read just one book, YOU HEAR ME? : POEMS AND WRITING BY TEENAGE BOYS.  It was a good book.  I'm not a huge poetry fan but as a librarian, I am always looking for new books for this weak section of the library.  It is difficult to find books that the young students will be able to relate to.  I believe this poetry book would be a good addition to a high school library.  I am concerned about the language in some poems.  I enjoyed the fact that the editor did not critique or comment on the poems.  I do wonder where these boys are now, 10 years later.  I hope that some of them continued writing.  My favorite was NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH which detailed what one young man saw as he sat on his front porch.