National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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