National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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