National Poetry Month Activities

April 2025

✍🏽 Got Poetry?

April is National Poetry Month

Use this template to find poems, teach poems, write poems, perform poems, and communicate home about National Poetry Month.

“It was at that age, that poetry came in search of me.” —Pablo Neruda

Dear Poet 2025

Dear Poet 2025 - Every National Poetry Month we present Dear Poet, a multimedia education project that invites you

poets.org

"To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun,..." - Langston Hughes

Poetry Slam!

For ideas on hosting an in-school slam, click here.

Poetry + Science

Science through the lens of poetry! Or vice versa :)

Get Inspired

Here's a fab list of poems for students.

A quick and easy poetry lesson:

Watch the video as a class

1. Discuss: what do we notice? About her language? Her gestures? Her emotion.

2. Brainstorm: have students make a list of topics they're passionate about & note feelings & associations with each.

3. Write: Time to write a poem.

4. Perform: Enjoy a vibrant classroom poetry slam.

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” —Rita Dove

Stuck on what to write about?

Here's a creative list of prompts to spur your students to greatness :)

Event Information

🔖 Poem in Your Pocket Day

Keep a poem in your pocket

And a picture in your head

And you'll never feel lonely

At night when you're in bed 🛌.

-- Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

Need Poem in Your Pocket Day activities? Check Here.

When?

Friday 18 Apr 2025, 08:00 am

Where?

Emily Dickinson Museum, Main Street, Amherst, MA, USA

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