National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
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
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.

Children’s

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