National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans by Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
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
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

Children’s

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