National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
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.
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine