Out of Wonder, Poems Celebrating Poets

Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets was born from an appreciation for the work of twenty diverse poets from across time and from around the world. It is a collection of original poems by Newbery Award-winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with poems by teacher-poet Chris Colderley and South Carolina Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth. Each of the poems in this book is an ode to one of the twenty celebrated poets, their work, or the act of writing poetry. As Kwame Alexander writes in the preface, “I believe that by reading other poets, we can discover our own wonder.”