National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
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
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
The dirt book : poems about animals that live beneath our feet by Harrison, David L.
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
For every one by Reynolds, Jason