National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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