National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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