National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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