National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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