National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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