National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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