National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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