National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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