National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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