National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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