National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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