National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
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.
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
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
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce