National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month

National Poetry Month FAQ's


History and Highlights


Kansas on poets.org


Poetry-A-Day
poets.org will send one new poem to your inbox each day to celebrate National Poetry Month.


Life Lines
We each carry lines of poetry with us. Words that others have written float back to us and stay with us, indelibly. We clutch these "Life Lines" like totems, repeat them as mantras, and summon them for comfort and laughter.


Against National Poetry Month As Such
by Charles Bernstein


Rejected Marketing Slogans for National Poetry Month
from McSweeney's