National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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