“Our voices are rising,” intones the DreamYard Prep Slam Team, members of which joined with Caroline Kennedy to select Poems to Learn By Heart (Hyperion, $19.99). An anthology both grand and accessible, its poems range from the clipped power of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool” to the lush reverie of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” from the silly wordplay of Jack Prelutsky to the furious rhythm of Yusef Komunyakaa. Careful attention to juxtaposition results in delightful groupings, and meticulous sectioning ensures treatment of life’s most important themes: family, the self, nature – and, of course, fairies, ogres, and witches. Jon Muth’s versatile paintings shift from surreal to lightly humorous to grave, emphasizing the poems’ tones in turn. The title doesn’t lie: this swath of the poetic landscape deserves to be memorized. All ages. ACD