National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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