National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans by Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
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.
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean

Children’s

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