National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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