National Poetry Month

Adult

You don
Goldenrod : poems by Smith, Maggie
Committed to memory: 100 best poems to memorize by
Heart talk : poetic wisdom for a better life by Wade, Cleo.
Postcolonial love poem by Diaz, Natalie
Dearly : new poems by Atwood, Margaret
The new one : painfully true stories from a reluctant dad by Birbiglia, Mike
How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) : poetry by Kingsolver, Barbara
African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song by
Obit : Poems by Chang, Victoria
The princess saves herself in this one by Lovelace, Amanda.
If they come for us : poems by Asghar, Fatimah
Poet warrior : a memoir by Harjo, Joy
Call us what we carry : poems by Gorman, Amanda
Good bones by Smith, Maggie
Border lines : poems of migration by
Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver by Oliver, Mary
When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through : a Norton Anthology of Native Nations poetry by Harjo, Joy.
Citizen : an American lyric by Rankine, Claudia
Vulnerable AF : poems by Ball, Tarriona
The tradition by Brown, Jericho
All dogs are good : poems and memories by Peppernell, Courtney.
Snow approaching on the Hudson : poems by Kleinzahler, August
Milk and honey by Kaur, Rupi
Homie : poems by Smith, Danez
Home body by Kaur, Rupi
The hill we climb : an inaugural poem for the country by Gorman, Amanda
You better be lightning by Gibson, Andrea (Poet)
Long way down by Reynolds, Jason
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
Returning the sword to the stone by Leidner, Mark
Say her name by Elliott, Zetta
Some things I still can
The flame : poems, notebooks, lyrics, drawings by Cohen, Leonard
Ordinary light : a memoir by Smith, Tracy K.
Night sky with exit wounds by Vuong, Ocean

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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