National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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