National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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