This comprehensive list is in alphabetical order.
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Abecedarian Poems
- Carole Boston Weatherford, September 2017
Advice Poems (for children)
- Karen Boss, June 2019
Acrostic Poems (all-about-me)
- Jane Whittingham (reader spotlight), September 2019
Anthropomorphic Poems
- Calef Brown, October 2018
Cinquains (water-inspired)
- Laura Purdie Salas, May 2014
Clerihews
- Kwame Alexander, April 2015
Comparison Poems (how writing, or a book, is like something else)
- Melissa Manlove, May 2017
Couplets (a dragon's feast)
- Penny Parker Klostermann, August 2015
Deeper Wisdom Poems
- Joyce Sidman, January 2015
Dinosaur Poems
- Deborah Bruss and Matt Forrest Esenwine, April 2018
"Ditty" Poems
- David L. Harrison, February 2016
Ditty Potluck
- TLD birthday celebration, April 2017
Echo Poems
- Marilyn Singer, April 2016
Epitaph Poems
- J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen, February 2018
Found Haiku
- Linda Mitchell (reader spotlight), July 2019
Free Verse (wordplay)
- Nikki Grimes, May 2015
Golden Shovel Poems
- Nikki Grimes, March 2018
Haiku (monster-inspired)
- Bob Raczka, November 2014
Inspired by My Shouting, Shattered, Whispering Voice (Patrice Vecchione)
- Lessons from the Bookshelf, April 2020
Instruction Poems
- Elizabeth Steinglass, May 2019
Kindness Poems
- Rebecca M. Davis, November 2015
Letter Poems
- David Elliott, February 2015
Me Poems
- Lee Bennett Hopkins, September 2015
Ode Poems
- Helen Frost, March 2017
Parody/Tribute Poems
-Tamera Will Wissinger, July 2014
Persona Poems
- Laura Shovan, May 2016
Personified Feeling Poems
- Jeannine Atkins, February 2017
Places of Refuge and Solace
- Ann Rider, November 2016
Poems about Games
- Tabatha Yeatts (reader spotlight), March 2020
Poems about Monster Fears
- Rebecca Herzog (reader spotlight), October 2019
Poems about Nothing
- Douglas Florian, January 2016
Poems for Mother
- Kenn Nesbitt, October 2016
Poems of Address
- Irene Latham, September 2014
Poems of Presence
- Margaret Simon (reader spotlight), May 2020
Poems that Find Beauty
- Carol Hinz, November 2017
Poems with Combined or Invented Words
- Buffy Silverman, February 2020
Poems with Questions
- Naomi Shihab Nye, September 2018
Poem Videos
- Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong, June 2014
Small as a Chickadee
- Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, March 2016
Septercets (that feature reading or writing)
- Jane Yolen, September 2016
Song Lyric-Inspired Poems
- Jesse Anna Bornemann (reader spotlight), August 2019
Spooky Poems (about a childhood memory)
- Carrie Clickard, October 2017
Tanka
- Margarita Engle, March 2015
Treehouse Poems (using multisyllabic rhyme)
- Corey Rosen Schwartz, June 2015
Unlikely Hero Poems
- Diana Murray, August 2016
(Un)requited Love Poems
- Marcus Ewert, October 2015
Wake Farmer McPeeper
- Lori Degman, August 2014
Window Poems
- Julie Fogliano, May 2018
Words at Play
- Kate O'Neil (reader spotlight), November 2019
Zenos
- J. Patrick Lewis, October 2014
