National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
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
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
No voice too small : fourteen young Americans making history by Metcalf, Lindsay H editor
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
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
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki