National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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