National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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