National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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