National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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