National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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