National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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