National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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