National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
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.
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States by

Children’s

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