National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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