National Poetry Month

Adult

Citizen : an American lyric by Rankine, Claudia
Ordinary light : a memoir by Smith, Tracy K.
Committed to memory: 100 best poems to memorize by
Milk and honey by Kaur, Rupi
You better be lightning by Gibson, Andrea (Poet)
The hill we climb : an inaugural poem for the country by Gorman, Amanda
Call us what we carry : poems by Gorman, Amanda
Heart talk : poetic wisdom for a better life by Wade, Cleo.
Vulnerable AF : poems by Ball, Tarriona
Dearly : new poems by Atwood, Margaret
The princess saves herself in this one by Lovelace, Amanda.
When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through : a Norton Anthology of Native Nations poetry by Harjo, Joy.
Good bones by Smith, Maggie
Returning the sword to the stone by Leidner, Mark
Obit : Poems by Chang, Victoria
The new one : painfully true stories from a reluctant dad by Birbiglia, Mike
Long way down by Reynolds, Jason
The flame : poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings by Cohen, Leonard
Homie : poems by Smith, Danez
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
Home body by Kaur, Rupi
The tradition by Brown, Jericho
African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song by
Say her name by Elliott, Zetta
All dogs are good : poems and memories by Peppernell, Courtney.
Postcolonial love poem by Diaz, Natalie
Goldenrod : poems by Smith, Maggie
If they come for us : poems by Asghar, Fatimah
Border lines : poems of migration by
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.
Poet warrior : a memoir by Harjo, Joy
Night sky with exit wounds by Vuong, Ocean
Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver by Oliver, Mary
Snow approaching on the Hudson : poems by Kleinzahler, August
How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) : poetry by Kingsolver, Barbara

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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