National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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