National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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