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December 2024

holiday poems

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.

poems about family

Family experiences, and our memories of those experiences, lay the cornerstone of who we become. Read our new curation of poems about family for teens in time for the holidays.

lesson plans to teach

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

teach this poem

Monday, November 4

Monday, November 11
Monday, November 18
Monday, November 25
Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes
I Have Stood Up for You” by Carlos Montezuma
finding tomorrow” by m.s. RedCherries
When the Burning Begins” by Patricia Smith
Winter: Poems for Kids
Politics: Poems for Kids

related resource

Enjoy a Free Epistolary Poetry Workshop with our Education Ambassador, Richard Blanco

2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and the Poet Laureate of Maine—Julia Bouwsma—has created an epistolary poetry project that introduces the form through a series of free public workshops. Watch a recording of the workshop that was led by the Academy’s Education Ambassador, Richard Blanco, and try your hand at an epistolary poem.
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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"A Winter Day" by Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald

Thursday, December 19, 2024

Great waves of sunlight all our land are flooding–– December 14, 2024 donate A Winter Day Marcella Agnes Fitzgerald Great waves of sunlight all our land are flooding— Our glorious land, so verdant and

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