Poem-a-Day - Happy National Poetry Month!

This April, join us as we continue to celebrate the 25th anniversary of 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 virtually with this list of thirty ways to celebrate poetry in the digital classroom.

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

Your students could be featured on Poets.org!

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

This year, invite your students to choose from twenty-one videos and submit their letters by April 30. Teachers interested in offering Dear Poet as a virtual classroom activity can use this free lesson plan or activities shared by other teachers that accompany the videos. Select letters will receive a reply from the poet and be featured on Poets.org in May.