National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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