National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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