National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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