National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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