National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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