National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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