National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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