National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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