National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
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
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans by Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
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
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

Children’s

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