National Poetry Month

Adult

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

Young Adult

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

Children’s

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