National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
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.
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce