National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
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
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
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
No voice too small : fourteen young Americans making history by Metcalf, Lindsay H editor
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice