National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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