National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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