National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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