National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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