National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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