National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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