National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
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
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
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.
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.