National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
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.
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame