National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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