National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States by
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
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.

Children’s

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