National Poetry Month

Adult

Milk and honey by Kaur, Rupi
Border lines : poems of migration by
If they come for us : poems by Asghar, Fatimah
Returning the sword to the stone by Leidner, Mark
Vulnerable AF : poems by Ball, Tarriona
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
The tradition by Brown, Jericho
All dogs are good : poems and memories by Peppernell, Courtney.
Good bones by Smith, Maggie
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
Postcolonial love poem by Diaz, Natalie
The new one : painfully true stories from a reluctant dad by Birbiglia, Mike
Ordinary light : a memoir by Smith, Tracy K.
Some things I still can't tell you : poems by Collins, Misha.
Goldenrod : poems by Smith, Maggie
Poet warrior : a memoir by Harjo, Joy
Homie : poems by Smith, Danez
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.
Obit : Poems by Chang, Victoria
You better be lightning by Gibson, Andrea (Poet)
Long way down by Reynolds, Jason
Home body by Kaur, Rupi
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
Night sky with exit wounds by Vuong, Ocean
Citizen : an American lyric by Rankine, Claudia
Committed to memory: 100 best poems to memorize by
The hill we climb : an inaugural poem for the country by Gorman, Amanda
Heart talk : poetic wisdom for a better life by Wade, Cleo.
You don't have to be everything : poems for girls becoming themselves by Whitney, Diana.
Say her name by Elliott, Zetta
Call us what we carry : poems by Gorman, Amanda

Young Adult

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

Children’s

Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
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
No voice too small : fourteen young Americans making history by Metcalf, Lindsay H editor
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
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
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan