National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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