National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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