National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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