National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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