National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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