National Poetry Month

In April 1996, The Academy of American Poets initiated a nation-wide, month-long celebration of poetry. The goal was to remind everyone that poets have an integral role to play in our learning and in our culture.

Poetry matters.

Over the years, this celebration of poetry has become the largest literary celebration in the world among readers, students, teachers, librarians, booksellers, literary events curators, publishers, families, and, of course, poets, marking poetry's important place in our lives.