National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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