National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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