National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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