National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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