National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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