National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans by Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
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
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.

Children’s

They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
Everything comes next : collected and new poems by Nye, Naomi Shihab
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
The dirt book : poems about animals that live beneath our feet by Harrison, David L.
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
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
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.