National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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