National Poetry Month

Adult

Postcolonial love poem by Diaz, Natalie
The princess saves herself in this one by Lovelace, Amanda.
Say her name by Elliott, Zetta
If they come for us : poems by Asghar, Fatimah
Obit : Poems by Chang, Victoria
Good bones by Smith, Maggie
Ordinary light : a memoir by Smith, Tracy K.
Dearly : new poems by Atwood, Margaret
Citizen : an American lyric by Rankine, Claudia
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
Committed to memory: 100 best poems to memorize by
Border lines : poems of migration by
You better be lightning by Gibson, Andrea (Poet)
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.
Call us what we carry : poems by Gorman, Amanda
The tradition by Brown, Jericho
Snow approaching on the Hudson : poems by Kleinzahler, August
The hill we climb : an inaugural poem for the country by Gorman, 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.
Long way down by Reynolds, Jason
Night sky with exit wounds by Vuong, Ocean
Homie : poems by Smith, Danez
Heart talk : poetic wisdom for a better life by Wade, Cleo.
Goldenrod : poems by Smith, Maggie
Home body by Kaur, Rupi
Milk and honey by Kaur, Rupi
Poet warrior : a memoir by Harjo, Joy
The new one : painfully true stories from a reluctant dad by Birbiglia, Mike
How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) : poetry by Kingsolver, Barbara
Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver by Oliver, Mary
The flame : poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings by Cohen, Leonard
All dogs are good : poems and memories by Peppernell, Courtney.
Returning the sword to the stone by Leidner, Mark
Vulnerable AF : poems by Ball, Tarriona

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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