Help spread the power of poetry

Dear Friend, During National Poetry Month, inevitably someone will ask whether the art of poetry still matters. We're grateful to have friends like you who know, resoundingly, that it does. Poems illuminate truths about ourselves on personal and global scales. Poems provide the words we seek to understand significant events. Poems comfort and console. Our nation's young people need what poetry can provide--an opportunity to reflect on how the words we use matter, and an invitation to empathize with others. Please donate so we can bring poetry to more students. As a teen poet wrote in a letter submitted as part of our Dear Poet Project this month: "I truly believe the power of our craft lies in its ability to reach all people by making the very emotions that make us human relatable, oftentimes in surprising and provocative ways." With support from friends like you, for nearly 50 years, the Academy of American Poets has worked to nurture the next generation of poets and their readers, ensuring that poetry and its unique contributions to our culture continue to be celebrated. In 1966, we launched the first Poets-in-the-Schools program. Thirty years later we launched the Online Poetry Classroom at Poets.org, which continues to assist teachers today. This April, we are raising funds to enable us offer additional educational activities and online resources geared toward young people. Thank you for helping make that possible. Sincerely,   Jennifer Benka Executive Director, Academy of American Poets   The Academy of American Poets is recognized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization under the Internal Revenue code and meets all 20 Better Business Bureau charity standards. Donations to the Academy of American Poets are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.

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