National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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