National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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