National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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