National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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