National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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