National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
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.
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth

Children’s

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