National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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