National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
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
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
The dirt book : poems about animals that live beneath our feet by Harrison, David L.
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki