Poetry: Home

This guide provides information on the Children's Book Committee, the Josette Frank, Flora Stieglitz Straus, and Claudia Lewis awards and more. It includes:

• Searching for poetry books
• Recommendations
• The Claudia Lewis Award
• Book Lists
• Anthologies
• Web Resources
• Multimedia Items

This Guide was created by Carol Van Houten

Call numbers for library resources on poetry.

Start with J 808.1 and go onwards to J 811 ~ J 813.

From the Library Home Page

• Start from the homepage.
• Type either poetry
• Click the magnifying glass icon to see a list of results.

From the Library Catalog

• Refine your results (e.g., select Juvenile Non-fiction Books)
• In the right-hand box Sort by select Date Publication/Copyright Newest to Oldest from the pull-down menu.

Now Explore!

Wikipedia

• An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler.
• It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts.
• In genre fiction anthology is used to categorize collections of shorter works such as short stories and short novels, usually collected into a single volume for publication.

Merriam-Webster

• A collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music.

This quick easy webpage (Bibme) gives you the basics on how to construct a reference list entry for an anthology and an item within an anthology. Remember Bank Street uses APA citation.