National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
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
Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans by Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States by

Children’s

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