News

 

The Mistakes That Made Us: Confessions from Twenty Poets, selected by Irene Latham and Charles Waters, illus. by Mercè López (Carolrhoda, 2024) was named a 2025 NCTE Notable Poetry Book. 

In other poetry news:

Congratulations to Carole Boston Weatherford for being named our next Young People's Poet Laureate! 

Congratulations to Naomi Shihab Nye for being recognized for lifetime achievement with the prestigious Wallace Stevens Award.

And congratulations to Charles R. Smith, Jr. for being honored with the 2025 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry. 

Charles Waters, Irene Latham, Charles R. Smith, Jr.