Radiant

by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

(Finalist, 2026)

Kareem Between

by Shifa Saltagi Safadi

(Finalist, 2025)

Starfish

by Lisa Fipps

(Finalist, 2022)

Full Cicada Moon

by Marilyn Hilton

(Honor, 2016)

Birmingham, 1963

by Carole Boston Weatherford

(Honor, 2008)

Soul Looks Back in Wonder

by Tom Feelings

(Honor, 1994)

Mascot

by Charles Waters and Traci Sorell

(Honor, 2024)

Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

by Nikki Grimes

(Finalist, 2022)

Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal

by Margarita Engle

(Honor, 2015)

Poems to Dream Together / Poemas para sonar juntos

by Francisco X. Alarcón and Paula Barragan

(Honor, 2006)

Bein’ with You This Way

by W. Nikola-Lisa and Michael Bryant

(Honor, 1995)

Warrior Girl

by Carmen Tafolla

(Finalist, 2024)

Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice

by Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo, Olivia Gatwood, and Theodore Taylor, III

(Finalist, 2020)

Inside Out & Back Again

by Thanhhà Lại

(Honor, 2012)

Sweetgrass Basket

by Marlene Carvell

(Honor, 2006)

If I Had a Paka

by Charlotte Pomerantz and Nancy Tafuri

(Honor, 1983)

A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez

by María Dolores Águila

(Finalist, 2026)

Land of Broken Promises

by Jane Kuo

(Finalist, 2024)

The Day War Came

by Nicola Davies and Rebecca Cobb

(Honor, 2019)

Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts about Peace

by Anna Grossnickle Hines

(Honor, 2012)

True Believer

by Virginia Euwer Wolff

(Honor, 2002)

All the Colors of the Race

by Arnold Adoff and John Steptoe

(Commended, 1983)

The History of We

by Nikkolas Smith

(Finalist, 2026)

A Seed in the Sun

by Aida Salazar

(Finalist, 2023)

The Day You Begin

by Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López

(Winner, 2019)

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom

by Margarita Engle

(Winner, 2009)

Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart

by Vera B. Williams

(Honor, 2002)