National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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