National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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