National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
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.
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
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
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun