National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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