National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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