National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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