National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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.
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
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse

Children’s

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