Celebrate National Poetry Month

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

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