National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
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
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
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.
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia

Children’s

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