National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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