Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Poetry Books Read in 2022
2022 was the year of poetry for me. I read over 70 poetry books -- poetry collections, books containing one long poem, novels-in-verse, memoirs-in-verse, biographies-in-verse, and books about poetry. The following list (which is quite extensive, I realize) contains the titles of all of five-star rated poetry books of the year.. I know that poetry isn't for everyone, but I do hope that from the depth of this list you find a few titles that will entice you to pick them up. (Hyperlinked titled take you to my reviews.)
Poetry Collections:
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright: An Animal Poem for Each Day of the Year edited by Fiona Waters
PreK- 3rd grade
Zoobilations by Douglas Florian
PreK -3rd grade
Alaska is for the Birds: Fourteen Favorite Feathered Friends by Susan Ewing
PreK-3rd grade
Counting in Dog Years and Other Sassy Math Poems by Betsy Franco
3rd-6th grade
PreK-2nd grade
The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Times of Grief by Jan Richardson
Adult
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander
3rd-6th grade
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
Adult
The Real Dada Mother Goose: A Treasury of Complete Nonsense by Jon Scieszka
2nd-5th grade
1619 Project: Born on Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones
K-6th grades
Novels-In-Verse:
The Book of Aspen by Danna Smith
YA, 9-12th grades
The Hope of Elephants by Amanda Rawson Hill
MG, 6-8th grades
African Town by Irene Latham and Charles Waters
YA
The Lost Language by Claudia Mills
MG
And They Called Her Fregona: a Border Kid's Poems by David Bowles
MG-YA
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
MG-YA
Singing with Elephants by Margarita Engle
MG
Wave by Diana Farid
MG
Memoir-In-Verse:
Abuela, Don't Forget Me by Rex Ogle
YA
My Name if Jason. Mine too.: Our Story. Our Way. by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
YA
Biography-In-Verse:
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor's Life by Marilyn Nelson
YA
Maya's Song by Renee Watson
PreK-2nd grade
YA
Nonfiction:
And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems by Erica Martin
MG-YA
One Book Sized Poem:
Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
YA
Change Sings: A Children's Anthem by Amanda Gorman
PreK-2nd grade
Books About Poetry 
The Heart of American Poetry by Edward Hirsch
Adult
Ten Poems for Difficult Times by Roger Housden
Adult
Audio:
Adult
-Anne
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