Dear Poet 2024 Poems and Videos Now Available

December 2023

Every National Poetry Month we present Dear Poet, a multimedia education project that invites young people in grades five through twelve to write letters in response to poems written and read by award-winning poets.

The Dear Poet 2024 videos are now available, and feature poets Leila Chatti, Chen Chen, Marilyn Chin, Nicole Cecilia Delgado, Nikky Finney, John James, Mara Pastor, Ed Roberson, and Patricia Smith.

The submission period for Dear Poet 2024 will open on January 11, 2024, and close on April 22, 2024. Supplementary teaching prompts will be available in January from 826 National. Learn more about Dear Poet 2024.

To celebrate the holidays in December, share poems about Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s, and more with our selection of holiday poems for kids and poems about beginnings, featuring poets such as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Christina Rossetti.

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“Let There Be” by Manny Loley
“Without” by Joy Harjo
“Four Sonnets About Food” by Adrienne Su
“Gahé Dzíł / Mountain Spirits” by Crisosto Apache

These lesson plans address ideas of winter, family, and change in the spirit of the holiday season. Browse the lesson plans, and read more poems about family.

Poems for Chanukah

Winter: Poems for Kids

Co-Poet Laureate of Altadena, California, Carla Rachel Sameth, invites you, your students, and your educational communities to a workshop held in the Altadena Main Library at 600 East Mariposa Street, Altadena, CA.

The next workshop “Nature as Metaphor,” takes place on Saturday, January 13, and brings seniors (55+) and high school students together to write poems inspired by nature as a metaphor for some aspect of human life and experience, personal or universal.

Learn more at the Altadena Library website.

Find the perfect present for the poet or reader in your life in our 2023 Holiday Gift Guide, featuring new poetry titles for adults and young readers and literary-themed offerings from our partners and advertisers.

Teachers, thank you for your work bringing poetry into the classroom year-round. We’re happy to be able to offer hundreds of free lesson plans, essays, and other resources, and we wish you and your students health and safety.

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