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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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