National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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