National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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