National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
The dirt book : poems about animals that live beneath our feet by Harrison, David L.
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
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
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston