National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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