National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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