National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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