National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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