National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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