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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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