National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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