National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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