National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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