National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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