National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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