National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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