National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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