National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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