National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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