Poem-a-Day - Poems for Women's History Month

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, including poets who serve on the Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors and who have received our Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships.

Use the 2022 Dear Poet lesson plan, and submit your letters beginning April, 2022.

From March through June 2022 the Poetry Coalition, an alliance of more than twenty-five independent poetry organizations across the United States, will explore the theme “The future lives in our bodies: Poetry & Disability Justice” in a series of programs in eleven cities that will reach more than 300,000 individuals nationwide. The line “The future lives in our bodies” is from the poem “Femme Futures” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.