National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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