National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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