Celebrate National Poetry Month

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

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