National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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