National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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