National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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