National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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