National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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