National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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