National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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