Announcing the Finalists of the 2019 National Poetry Month Poster Contest

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend December 2018 Looking Back on a Year of Poetry   Since Robert Frost encouraged our founder, Marie Bullock, to "get poetry into the high schools" in the 1960s, we've been assisting teachers in bringing poetry into the classroom—and an important part of this work is making sure teachers have access to poems. Take a look at a few of the classic and contemporary poems we added to Poets.org in 2018:   "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party" by Chen Chen "The Last Word of a Bluebird" by Robert Frost "The Last Thing" by Ada Limón "Notebook, 1981" by Eileen Myles "Eldorado" by Edgar Allan Poe "Haiku [i count the morning]" by Sonia Sanchez "Perennials" by Maggie Smith "My Father as Cartographer" by Natasha Trethewey "John Whirlwind's Doublebeat Songs, 1956" by Ray A.      Young Bear   Browse more than 9,400 poems on Poets.org.

Browse poems for Human Rights Day on December 10. Read a lesson plan for the winter solstice on December 21. Look ahead to 2019 with these poems about beginnings. Poems and Lesson Plans for the Holiday Season   Find poems about winter and poems about the holidays to read and to share. Then, bring holiday cheer into the classroom with lesson plans featuring poems about snow, the winter solstice, and the holiday season. Celebrating Emily Dickinson   Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830. Celebrate her birthday by sharing her poems and biography in the classroom, and browse this collection of essays, reading guides, and poetry inspired by her work. National Poetry Month Poster Contest Finalists   Thank you to the 450+ students who submitted artwork for consideration in the first-ever National Poetry Month Poster Contest! We were so impressed by the originality and skill displayed in all of these submissions, and we're excited to share the 12 finalists with you now. (Stay tuned for an announcement of the winning artwork!) Poetry in the Classroom Calendar   Feature poetry in the classroom year-round with the help of this free, downloadable calendar, which offers poems, lesson plans, and other resources related to specific days, months, and seasons. Highlights from the Past Year   As we plan ahead for 2019, we're also proud to look back on the following highlights from our education programs in 2018:   More than 1,900 students from 30 states and territories wrote letters to poets through the Dear Poet project.   We launched the first-ever National Poetry Month Poster Contest.   Teach This Poem received the Innovations in Reading Prize from the National Book Foundation.   Thank you, as always, for the vital work you have done this year in bringing poetry into the classroom! Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038

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