National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki
Poem in my pocket by Tougas, Chris.
Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein. by Silverstein, Shel
Lullaby : for a black mother by Hughes, Langston
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
The Arabic quilt : an immigrant story by Khalil, Aya
Rebound by Alexander, Kwame
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Niños : poems for the lost children of Chile by Ferrada, María José
Inside out & back again by Lai, Thanhha.
They only see the outside : poems by Dakos, Kalli
Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline.
The dirt book : poems about animals that live beneath our feet by Harrison, David L.
Hello, Earth! : poems to our planet by Sidman, Joyce
Like a dandelion by Lee, Huy Voun
Dreams from many rivers : a Hispanic history of the United States told in poems by Engle, Margarita
For every one by Reynolds, Jason
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids by
The last straw: kids vs. plastics by Hood, Susan
Sweet people are everywhere by Walker, Alice
Other words for home by Warga, Jasmine
Woke : a young poet's call to justice by
When we were very young by Milne, A. A.
Love that dog by Creech, Sharon.