National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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