National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States by
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans by Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
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
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
The dirt book : poems about animals that live beneath our feet by Harrison, David L.
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
No voice too small : fourteen young Americans making history by Metcalf, Lindsay H editor