National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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