National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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