National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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