National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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