National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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