National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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