National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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