National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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