National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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