National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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