National Poetry Month

Adult

The tradition by Brown, Jericho
Obit : Poems by Chang, Victoria
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.
You better be lightning by Gibson, Andrea (Poet)
Say her name by Elliott, Zetta
Call us what we carry : poems by Gorman, Amanda
Snow approaching on the Hudson : poems by Kleinzahler, August
Night sky with exit wounds by Vuong, Ocean
Vulnerable AF : poems by Ball, Tarriona
Milk and honey by Kaur, Rupi
The flame : poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings by Cohen, Leonard
Committed to memory: 100 best poems to memorize by
Goldenrod : poems by Smith, Maggie
Poet warrior : a memoir by Harjo, Joy
Citizen : an American lyric by Rankine, Claudia
The new one : painfully true stories from a reluctant dad by Birbiglia, Mike
Homie : poems by Smith, Danez
Postcolonial love poem by Diaz, Natalie
How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) : poetry by Kingsolver, Barbara
When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through : a Norton Anthology of Native Nations poetry by Harjo, Joy.
African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song by
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver by Oliver, Mary
Border lines : poems of migration by
Home body by Kaur, Rupi
Ordinary light : a memoir by Smith, Tracy K.
Long way down by Reynolds, Jason
All dogs are good : poems and memories by Peppernell, Courtney.
Dearly : new poems by Atwood, Margaret
Good bones by Smith, Maggie
If they come for us : poems by Asghar, Fatimah
The hill we climb : an inaugural poem for the country by Gorman, Amanda
Returning the sword to the stone by Leidner, Mark
The princess saves herself in this one by Lovelace, Amanda.
Heart talk : poetic wisdom for a better life by Wade, Cleo.

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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