National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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