National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States by
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
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

Children’s

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