2024
2024 Edition
Annual Emerging Poets Collection 2024
Poems from the 2024 slam — a new generation of young writers finding their voice.
Annual Anthology
The Emerging Poets Collection
Every year since 2016, Power Poetry has published an anthology of the best poems written by our community of young poets (17 and under). Every edition is free on Kindle, forever.
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Annual Emerging Poets Collection 2025 — 10th Anniversary Edition
A decade of young voices. Our 10th anniversary collection celebrates the poets who have shaped this community since 2016.
A decade of work. Thousands of poems. The best of 10 years of Power Poetry.
Recent Editions
2023
2023 Edition
Annual Emerging Poets Collection 2023
The 2023 collection — poems about identity, change, and the world our poets are building.
The Full Collection
2022 Edition
Annual Emerging Poets Collection 2022
The top poems from our 2022 Emerging Poets Slam, featuring the strongest young voices of the year.
2021 Edition
Annual Emerging Poets Collection 2021
Poems from the 2021 slam — written during the pandemic era, these poems carry resilience, loss, and hope.
2020 Edition
Annual Emerging Poets Collection 2020
The 2020 collection captures a generation writing through lockdowns, protests, and a world turned upside down.
2019 Edition
Annual Emerging Poets Collection 2019
Top 50 poets from the 2019 Emerging Poets Slam — raw, honest work from poets 17 and under.
2018 Edition
Annual Emerging Poets Collection 2018
The Top 50 poets of our 2018 slam share the techniques they've mastered and those they're still learning.
2017 Edition
Annual Emerging Poets Slam 2017
Our first published collection — the poems that started the annual tradition.
Want to be in next year's book?
Submit your best poem to the current Emerging Poets Slam. The Top 50 will be published in our next anthology.