2019 WINNER: Martin Rising

The 2019 winner of the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award is:

Martin Rising: Requiem for a King by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic).

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HONOR BOOKS:

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy by Tony Medina, illustrated by 13 artists (Penny Candy Books).

The Honeybee by Kirsten Hall, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault, (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

2018 WINNER: One Last Word

The 2018 winner of the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award is:

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes (Bloomsbury, 2017).

2017 WINNER: When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons

The 2017 winner of the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award is:




When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons by Julie Fogliano; illustrated by Julie Morstad (Roaring Brook Press 2016).

2016 WINNER: My Seneca Village

This is the 2016 winner of the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award:




Nelson, Marilyn. 2015. My Seneca Village. namelos.

2015 WINNERS: Brown Girl Dreaming & Winter Bees

This is the 2015 winner of the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award for Older Readers:

Woodson, Jacqueline. 2014. Brown Girl Dreaming. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books. 

This is the 2015 winner of the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award for Younger Readers:

Sidman, Joyce. 2014. Winter Bees. Illus. by Rick Allen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

2014 WINNER: What the Heart Knows

This is the 2014 winner of the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award:

Sidman, Joyce. 2013. What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms & Blessings. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 

2013 WINNER: National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry

This is the 2013 winner of the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award:


Lewis, J. Patrick. Ed. 2012. The National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic.