National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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