The 2022 poster was designed by eleventh grader Lara L. from Saunders Trades and Technical High School in Yonkers, New York, who was the winner of the 2022 National Poetry Month Poster Contest, and features a line by 2021 Presidential Inaugural Poet and 2017 National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman.

Learn more about the 2022 National Poetry Month Poster Contest for Students.

View Poems of the Day

         4/1/21       My Einsteinicity - by Lynne Thompson
4/2/21      An April Day - By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4/3/21      Easter Wings - By George Herbert
4/4/21      Easter Day - Oscar Wilde
​4/5/21      On the Pulse of Morning - By Maya Angelou
​4/6/21      Preludes - By T.S. Eliot
4/7/21       The Raven - By Edgar Allen Poe
4/8/21      Hope is the thing with feathers - By Emily Dickinson
4/9/21      Today - By Mary Oliver
4/10/21     Where the Sidewalk Ends” – By Shel Silverstein
4/11/21      The Hill We Climb – By Amanda Gorman
4/12/21     The New Intelligence – By Timothy Donnelly 
4/13/21     Déjà vu – By Carmen Gimenez Smith  
4/14/21     Spring Break – By April Halprin Wayland
4/15/21     New Math – By Nikki Grimes   
4/16/21     Match – by Jason Reynolds
4/17/21     How to Triump Like a Girl – By Ada Limon  
4/18/21     John Henry crosses the Threshold – By Samiya Bashir
4/19/21     How to Meditate – By Jack Kerouac  
4/20/21    Mirror – By Sylvia Plath  
4/21/21     Freedom’s Plow – By Langston Hughes  
4/22/21    Stanzas in meditation – By Gertrude Stein  
4/23/21    The Road Not Taken – By Robert Frost
4/24/21    In/Spring Comes(no-..) – By E. E. Cummings  
4/25/21    Sonnet: – By Dante Alighieri  
4/26/21    Hap – By Thomas Hardy  
4/27/21     Sappho – By James Wright  
4/28/21    Recreation – By Audre Lorde  
4/29/21    Dawn Revisited – By Rita Dove  
4/30/21    Song on May Morning – By John Milton