National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

For every one by Reynolds, Jason
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita
The dirt book : poems about animals that live beneath our feet by Harrison, David L.
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
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
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun