National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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