National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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