National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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