National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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