National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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