National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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