National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
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.
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
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
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse

Children’s

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