National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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