National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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