National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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