National Poetry Month

Adult

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

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
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States by
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
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.

Children’s

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