National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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