National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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