National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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