The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze poverty representations in geography textbooks for alternative geographies of poverty. To this end, this study reviewed poverty concepts and discourses and examined politics of poverty representations in geography textbooks. Until now, poverty often were represented as starving children in urban slums of global south or the third world in textbooks. For constructing geographies of poverty, I proposed to understand poverty in multidimensional aspects, and to reveal agency of people in poverty and affects of poverty.