National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
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
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
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
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
The dirt book : poems about animals that live beneath our feet by Harrison, David L.