National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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