National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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