National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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