National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
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
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine

Children’s

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