National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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