National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
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
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans by Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.

Children’s

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