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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
The dirt book : poems about animals that live beneath our feet by Harrison, David L.
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
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
Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by