National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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