Lynnfield Public Library Shares Adult And Children's Books For National Poetry Month

Press release from the Lynnfield Public Library:

April 23, 2021

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

This press release was produced by the Lynnfield Public Library. The views expressed are the author's own.