National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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