National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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