National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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