Poetry Month

National Poetry Month FAQ
What is National Poetry Month?

Who started it?
When is National Poetry Month?
Why was April chosen for National Poetry Month?
What are the goals of National Poetry Month?
How does the Academy celebrate National Poetry Month?
Do organizations need permission to participate?
What can I do to celebrate NPM?
How can teachers become more involved?
How can librarians become more involved?
How can booksellers become more involved?
Does it cost anything to celebrate National Poetry Month?
Can other organizations use the NPM logo?
Do I need permission to use the NPM logo?
How can I obtain a copy of the National Poetry Month poster?
How can I support National Poetry Month?
Shouldn't we celebrate poetry all year round, not just in April?
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Special Features
William Shakespeare
Glossary of Poetry Terms
Notable Poets
Recommended Poetry Sites
Excellent Kids' Poetry Books

Poetry & Quotations
Poets on Poetry
Spring Poetry
Summer Poetry
Fall Poetry
Memorial Poetry
War Poetry
Winter Quotations
Quotes from Love Poems
Love Poems on the Web

Notable Poets »
Akhmatova - Byron
Catullus - Dunbar
Eliot - Hughes
Jarrell - Millay
Neruda - Rumi
Sandburg - Tennyson
Valéry - Yeats

Poetry Collections
William Blake
Poems
Anne Bradstreet
Poems and Meditations
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Robert Burns
Poems and Songs
Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark
Phantasmagoria and Other Poems
Samuel Coleridge
Ancient Mariner and Select Poems
Stephen Crane
War Is Kind
Emily Dickinson
Poems
John Donne
Songs and Sonnets
T. S. Eliot
Poems
The Waste Land
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poems
Robert Frost
A Boy's Will
Robert Graves
Fairies and Fusiliers
A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad
Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat
John Keats
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems
John Keats
Poems 1817
Henry W. Longfellow
The Song of Hiawatha
Amy Lowell
A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
Men, Women, and Ghosts
Andrew Marvell
Selected Poems
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Ezra Pound
From the Chinese
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Poems of Christina Rossetti
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Complete Poetical Works
Sara Teasdale
Flame and Shadow
Rivers to the Sea
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
W. B. Yeats
Michael Robartes and The Dancer
The Little Book of Modern Verse, Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed.
The Second Book of Modern Verse, Jessie B. Rittenhouse, ed.

Poet Laureates
English Poets Laureate
U.S. Poets Laureate
Poetry Awards
Bollingen Prize in Poetry
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
National Book Awards
National Book Critics Circle Awards
PEN Literary Award Winners
Nobel Prize for Literature