2016 National Poetry Month Highlights
National Poetry Month Poster
Each year, the Academy of American Poets partners with award-winning designer Chip Kidd to commission a poster in celebration of National Poetry Month. The 2016 poster was illustrated by Debbie Millman and features lines of poetry by some of our greatest poets.
This year we distributed over 100,000 posters to schools, libraries, bookstores, community centers, and our members.
Dear Poet 2016
To help teachers and students celebrate National Poetry Month, we offer a signature multimedia education project Dear Poet that invites young people in grades five through twelve to write letters in response to poems written and read by some of the award-winning poets who serve on the Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors.
In 2016, we produced, and made available for free on Poets.org, a series of videos featuring our Chancellors reading their poems. And to further help teachers bring Dear Poet to the classroom, we worked with a curriculum specialist to design a lesson plan, aligned with the Common Core.
Read a selection of the 1,300+ letters we received from young people to our Chancellors and their heartfelt responses back.
