National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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