National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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