Poem-a-Day - Happy 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.

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-six videos and submit their letters by May 1st. Teachers may also submit their students’ letters, use this free lesson plan, and share a certificate of completion with their class. Select letters will receive a reply from the poet and be featured on Poets.org.

Monday, March 7:
 

“We Lived Happily during the War” by Ilya Kaminsky

“La Biblioteca is a Doula” by Magdalena Gómez

“Wild Horses” by Paisley Rekdal

“Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]” by Meg Day