National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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