National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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