National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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