National Poetry Month

Adult

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

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
Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans by Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
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
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean

Children’s

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