National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans by Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
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.
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
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
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.

Children’s

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