National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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