National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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