National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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