National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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