National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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