National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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