National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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