National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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