National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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