by Katherine Decker, Head of Circulation
April is Poetry Month and in celebration, we’ve compiled a list of poetry books for all ages.
Phenomenal Woman – Maya Angelou
Complete Poems – Emily Dickinson
Early Poems – Robert Frost
The Hill We Climb – Amanda Gorman
The sun and her flowers – Rupi Kaur
The Maine Poets – Wesley McNair
Garden Time – W.S. Merwin
Devotions: the selected poems of Mary Oliver – Mary Oliver
A Thousand Mornings – Mary Oliver
American hybrid: a Norton anthology of new poetry – edited by Cole Swenson and David St. John
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
For Kids
The Stuff of Stars – Marion Dane Bauer
Woke: a young poet’s call to justice – Mahogany L. Browne
Hip Hop Speaks to Children – Nikki Giovanni
Firefly July: a year of very short poems – Paul B. Janeczko
Poems to Learn by Heart – compiled by Caroline Kennedy
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers – Fred Rogers
Falling Up – Shel Silverstein
The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
Ancestor Approved: intertribal stories for kids – Cynthia Leitich Smith
My Shadow – Robert Louis Stevenson
Maya Angelou – edited by Edwin Graves Wilson