National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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