National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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