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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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