National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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