National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
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.
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean

Children’s

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