National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States by
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
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
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia

Children’s

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