Poem-a-Day - The Road to National Poetry Month!

This April, join us as we celebrate National Poetry Month, an occasion we launched to honor the integral role that poets and poetry have in our culture. We encourage you and your school communities to participate in National Poetry Month with this list of thirty ways to celebrate poetry in the classroom.

Share how your class is celebrating, and don’t forget to tag us on social media @poetsorg, or use the hashtag #NationalPoetryMonth.

As you plan for National Poetry Month, here are a few things to keep in mind:

• Browse selections of poetry lesson plans curated around themes, occasions, class subjects, and more.
   
• Find themed collections of poetry for teens and poetry for kids.
  
  
• Learn more about the programs and events happening in celebration of National Poetry Month below:

From March through May 2023 the Poetry Coalition, an alliance of more than twenty-five independent poetry organizations across the United States, will explore the theme “and so much lost      you’d think / beauty had left a lesson: Poetry & Grief” in a series of virtual and in-person programs. The line “and so much lost      you’d think / beauty had left a lesson” is from Ed Roberson’s poem “once the magnolia has blossomed.”

Teach Roberson’s poem with this free lesson plan, and find essays on grief by renowned poets who reflect on poems that helped them better understand or process grief.