National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
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.
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

Children’s

Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
The dirt book : poems about animals that live beneath our feet by Harrison, David L.
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
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.