National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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