National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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