National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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