National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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