National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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