National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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