National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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