National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
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
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.
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
No voice too small : fourteen young Americans making history by Metcalf, Lindsay H editor
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine