National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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