National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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