National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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