National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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