THE 2025 NATIONAL POETRY MONTH POSTER REQUEST LINE IS NOW CLOSED.
“This / is the world I want to live in. The shared world.”
The 2025 poster featured an excerpt from “Gate A-4”, a poem by former Young People’s Poet Laureate and Academy Chancellor Naomi Shihab Nye, as well as artwork by New York Times-bestselling author and illustrator Christy Mandin.
Mandin was selected by Scholastic—the global children’s publishing, education, and media company—to create the artwork for the 2025 NPM poster as part of a National Poetry Month collaboration with the Academy of American Poets.
A lesson plan featuring Nye’s poem is also available through the Academy’s Teach This Poem series to bring the poster to life for National Poetry Month.
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