National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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