National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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