National Poetry Month

Adult

The hill we climb : an inaugural poem for the country by Gorman, Amanda
The flame : poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings by Cohen, Leonard
Citizen : an American lyric by Rankine, Claudia
Obit : Poems by Chang, Victoria
African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song by
Dearly : new poems by Atwood, Margaret
Postcolonial love poem by Diaz, Natalie
Good bones by Smith, Maggie
Homie : poems by Smith, Danez
Vulnerable AF : poems by Ball, Tarriona
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
Call us what we carry : poems by Gorman, Amanda
Night sky with exit wounds by Vuong, Ocean
How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) : poetry by Kingsolver, Barbara
Milk and honey by Kaur, Rupi
Long way down by Reynolds, Jason
Border lines : poems of migration by
The new one : painfully true stories from a reluctant dad by Birbiglia, Mike
When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through : a Norton Anthology of Native Nations poetry by Harjo, Joy.
Some things I still can't tell you : poems by Collins, Misha.
Committed to memory: 100 best poems to memorize by
Ordinary light : a memoir by Smith, Tracy K.
The princess saves herself in this one by Lovelace, Amanda.
Goldenrod : poems by Smith, Maggie
Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver by Oliver, Mary
Say her name by Elliott, Zetta
You better be lightning by Gibson, Andrea (Poet)
Home body by Kaur, Rupi
Snow approaching on the Hudson : poems by Kleinzahler, August
The tradition by Brown, Jericho
Poet warrior : a memoir by Harjo, Joy
All dogs are good : poems and memories by Peppernell, Courtney.
Returning the sword to the stone by Leidner, Mark
If they come for us : poems by Asghar, Fatimah
Heart talk : poetic wisdom for a better life by Wade, Cleo.
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
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans by Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States by
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

Children’s

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