National Poetry Month

Adult

All dogs are good : poems and memories by Peppernell, Courtney.
Goldenrod : poems by Smith, Maggie
The new one : painfully true stories from a reluctant dad by Birbiglia, Mike
Poet warrior : a memoir by Harjo, Joy
When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through : a Norton Anthology of Native Nations poetry by Harjo, Joy.
Night sky with exit wounds by Vuong, Ocean
The princess saves herself in this one by Lovelace, Amanda.
Milk and honey by Kaur, Rupi
Committed to memory: 100 best poems to memorize by
Border lines : poems of migration by
Ordinary light : a memoir by Smith, Tracy K.
Good bones by Smith, Maggie
African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song by
If they come for us : poems by Asghar, Fatimah
Returning the sword to the stone by Leidner, Mark
The hill we climb : an inaugural poem for the country by Gorman, Amanda
You better be lightning by Gibson, Andrea (Poet)
Postcolonial love poem by Diaz, Natalie
Snow approaching on the Hudson : poems by Kleinzahler, August
Call us what we carry : poems by Gorman, Amanda
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
Home body by Kaur, Rupi
The flame : poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings by Cohen, Leonard
Vulnerable AF : poems by Ball, Tarriona
Some things I still can't tell you : poems by Collins, Misha.
The tradition by Brown, Jericho
Obit : Poems by Chang, Victoria
Homie : poems by Smith, Danez
How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) : poetry by Kingsolver, Barbara
Citizen : an American lyric by Rankine, Claudia
Dearly : new poems by Atwood, Margaret
Say her name by Elliott, Zetta
Long way down by Reynolds, Jason
You don't have to be everything : poems for girls becoming themselves by Whitney, Diana.
Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver by Oliver, Mary
Heart talk : poetic wisdom for a better life by Wade, Cleo.

Young Adult

Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States by
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans by Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason

Children’s

Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
The dirt book : poems about animals that live beneath our feet by Harrison, David L.
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
No voice too small : fourteen young Americans making history by Metcalf, Lindsay H editor
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.