National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
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
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
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
The dirt book : poems about animals that live beneath our feet by Harrison, David L.
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
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
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.