National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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