National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
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.
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita