Researches during the last three decades reveal that the teaching of poems in High School follows a historicist pattern that does not contribute much to the reader development. Otherwise, experiments done in different grades of elementary teaching, using an interactionist methodology, showed an effective involvement of young readers in the construction of meaning when reading poems. In this paper, we are going to present and discuss a research about the teaching of literature in High School as well as the result of a survey about the impact of the School Library National Program (PNBE) in the teaching of literature in five public schools in Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brazil. Possible uses of the collection of this important socialization program of literary works in the teaching of literary texts were observed. Finally, a text-approach proposal to one of the books of poems selected to the collection of PNBE - 2013 will be shown. From the research diagnostic about the teaching of poems and the use (or not) of the PNBE collection in High School, this research aims at pointing out some methodological perspectives of teaching poetry by giving emphasis to the text-reader dialogue. The theoretical framework used here is based on Reception Aesthetics, applying new methodological proposals to the teaching of literary texts in classrooms, particularly on poems.
poetry teaching; High School; PNBE