National Poetry Month

Adult

Committed to memory: 100 best poems to memorize by
Good bones by Smith, Maggie
Snow approaching on the Hudson : poems by Kleinzahler, August
Milk and honey by Kaur, Rupi
The hill we climb : an inaugural poem for the country by Gorman, Amanda
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
All dogs are good : poems and memories by Peppernell, Courtney.
Obit : Poems by Chang, Victoria
Poet warrior : a memoir by Harjo, Joy
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 princess saves herself in this one by Lovelace, Amanda.
Border lines : poems of migration by
Ordinary light : a memoir by Smith, Tracy K.
The tradition by Brown, Jericho
The flame : poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings by Cohen, Leonard
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.
Vulnerable AF : poems by Ball, Tarriona
African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song by
Long way down by Reynolds, Jason
How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) : poetry by Kingsolver, Barbara
Returning the sword to the stone by Leidner, Mark
Homie : poems by Smith, Danez
If they come for us : poems by Asghar, Fatimah
Say her name by Elliott, Zetta
Night sky with exit wounds by Vuong, Ocean
Dearly : new poems by Atwood, Margaret
Citizen : an American lyric by Rankine, Claudia
Goldenrod : poems by Smith, Maggie
Heart talk : poetic wisdom for a better life by Wade, Cleo.
You better be lightning by Gibson, Andrea (Poet)
Home body by Kaur, Rupi
Call us what we carry : poems by Gorman, Amanda
Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver by Oliver, Mary
Postcolonial love poem by Diaz, Natalie

Young Adult

Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States by
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
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.
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason

Children’s

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