National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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