National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty by Heppermann, Christine
The Black Flamingo by Atta, Dean
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
Ain't burned all the bright by Reynolds, Jason
Every body looking by Iloh, Candice.
Crank by Hopkins, Ellen.
Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans by Crossley-Holland, Kevin.
Clap when you land by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States by
Punching the air by Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Shout by Anderson, Laurie Halse

Children’s

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