National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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