National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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