National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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