National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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