30 Poems for 30 Days of National Poetry Month
To celebrate 2025 National Poetry Month in April, NCTE will share a daily poem and a daily poet selected by … The post 30 Poems for 30 Days of National Poetry Month appeared first on National Council of Teachers of English.
To celebrate 2025 National Poetry Month in April, NCTE will share a daily poem and a daily poet selected by author Charles R. Smith Jr., winner of the 2025 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, along with a classroom prompt. Be sure to follow us on social media to get each poem as it drops, and check back here throughout the month for the cumulative, up-to-date list.
Watch this introductory message to teachers from Charles R. Smith Jr.:
Tuesday, April 1
Daily poem: “Keep a-goin” by Frank Lebby Stanton
Classroom prompt: Do you like this poem? Why or why not?
Daily poet: Langston Hughes. Get resources from The Poetry Foundation for teaching Langston Hughes, “a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of black intellectual, literary, and artistic life that took place in the 1920s in a number of American cities, particularly Harlem.”
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