The 2018 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award is:
Grimes, Nikki. 2017. One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomsbury.
For more information, check out the Pennsylvania Center for the Book.
Lee B. Hopkins Poetry Award Teaching Toolbox
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Friday, February 17, 2017
2017 Winner: SOMOS COMO LAS NUBES/WE ARE LIKE THE CLOUDS
The 2017 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award is:
Argueta, Jorge. 2016. Somos como las nubes/We are Like the Clouds. Toronto: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press.
Jama Rattigan features this book in a lovely post here.

In addition, an honor book was selected-- Garvey's Choice by Nikki Grimes (Boyds Mills Press/Wordsong, 2016).
Argueta, Jorge. 2016. Somos como las nubes/We are Like the Clouds. Toronto: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press.
Jama Rattigan features this book in a lovely post here.


Friday, February 26, 2016
2016 Winner: ENCHANTED AIR
The 2016 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award is:
Engle, Margarita. 2015. Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir. New York: Atheneum.
Click HERE for a reader's guide to Enchanted Air and HERE for Margarita Engle's website.
Engle, Margarita. 2015. Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir. New York: Atheneum.
Click HERE for a reader's guide to Enchanted Air and HERE for Margarita Engle's website.
Friday, September 18, 2015
2015 Winner: THE CROSSOVER
The 2015 winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award is:
Alexander, Kwame. 2014. The Crossover. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Click HERE for a readers' guide for The Crossover.
Alexander, Kwame. 2014. The Crossover. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Click HERE for a readers' guide for The Crossover.
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