National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
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.
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States by
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean

Children’s

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