National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Crossover by Alexander, Kwame
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
Home is not a country by Elhillo, Safia
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
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.
Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean
Bronx masquerade by Grimes, Nikki.
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.

Children’s

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