National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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