National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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