Celebrate National Poetry Month

We are all so good at smiling
They call me Güero : a border kid
A beautiful day in the neighborhood : the poetry of Mister Rogers
Concrete Kids
Bird
The best of Ogden Nash
Poetry unbound : 50 poems to open your world
Kween
They call her Fregona : a border kid
We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire
And we rise : the Civil Rights Movement in poems
A Million Quiet Revolutions
You don
Shout : a poetry memoir
When We Make It
Brute : poems
Out of wonder : poems celebrating poets
Black girl magic
The hunting accident : a true story of crime and poetry
Robert Frost
Black girl magic
Every Body Looking
Poetry for cats : the definitive anthology of distinguished feline verse
Open all night : new poems
Songs of innocence & of experience /
The museum on the moon : the curious objects on the lunar surface
How to read a poem-- and start a poetry circle
Body music : poems about the noises your body makes
Poems
Fresh-picked poetry : a day at the farmers
The witch doesn
Ink knows no borders : poems of the immigrant and refugee experience
Starfish
William Blake vs the world.
Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
What kind of woman : poems
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius /
The book of delights
The Anchor book of Chinese poetry
Poems that make grown women cry
The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin
Earth verse : haiku from the ground up
Muted
Wearing my mother
Inheritance : a visual poem
Me (Moth)
Goldenrod : poems
Out of this world : star-studded haiku
A ghost in the throat
Respect the mic : celebrating 20 years of poetry from a Chicagoland high school
Poems /
Nothing Burns as Bright as You
How to read poetry like a professor : a quippy and sonorous guide to verse
I
Her. III
Boo! Haiku
Cannibal
The BreakBeat poets : new American poetry in the age of hip-hop
Chlorine Sky
Inheritance : a visual poem
Carry on : poetry by young immigrants
Home Is Not a Country
Milk and honey
Voyage of the Sable Venus and other poems
The poetry of everyday life : storytelling and the art of awareness
Tanya : poems
William Blake now : Why he matters more than ever.
Wet cement : a mix of concrete poems

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