National Poetry Month

Adult

The new one : painfully true stories from a reluctant dad by Birbiglia, Mike
Homie : poems by Smith, Danez
All dogs are good : poems and memories by Peppernell, Courtney.
You don
How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) : poetry by Kingsolver, Barbara
You better be lightning by Gibson, Andrea (Poet)
Citizen : an American lyric by Rankine, Claudia
Good bones by Smith, Maggie
Home body by Kaur, Rupi
Heart talk : poetic wisdom for a better life by Wade, Cleo.
The tradition by Brown, Jericho
Say her name by Elliott, Zetta
Obit : Poems by Chang, Victoria
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
Call us what we carry : poems by Gorman, Amanda
Postcolonial love poem by Diaz, Natalie
Night sky with exit wounds by Vuong, Ocean
Snow approaching on the Hudson : poems by Kleinzahler, August
Goldenrod : poems by Smith, Maggie
The princess saves herself in this one by Lovelace, Amanda.
Returning the sword to the stone by Leidner, Mark
Border lines : poems of migration by
Ordinary light : a memoir by Smith, Tracy K.
Long way down by Reynolds, Jason
African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song by
If they come for us : poems by Asghar, Fatimah
Vulnerable AF : poems by Ball, Tarriona
Dearly : new poems by Atwood, Margaret
Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver by Oliver, Mary
When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through : a Norton Anthology of Native Nations poetry by Harjo, Joy.
Milk and honey by Kaur, Rupi
Committed to memory: 100 best poems to memorize by
The hill we climb : an inaugural poem for the country by Gorman, Amanda
Some things I still can
The flame : poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings by Cohen, Leonard
Poet warrior : a memoir by Harjo, Joy

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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