National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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
Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans by Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States by
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia

Children’s

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