National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
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
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse

Children’s

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