National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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