Poetry Month: Home

Watch videos of poems being read aloud

A Poem a Day for American High Schools, Hosted by Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2001-2003

Animated films created by students, in association with The Poetry Foundation and PBS.

From poets.org and produced for K-12 educators, Teach This Poem features one poem a week from our online poetry collection, accompanied by interdisciplinary resources and activities designed to help teachers quickly and easily bring poetry into the classroom.

Modern high-quality translations of classic texts by famous poets, plus original poetry and critical works.

Poetry Out Loud is a competition that encourages students to learn about great poetry through memorization and recitation.

Search poems, poets & quotations

From the Poetry Foundation

Best poems by best poets

Beautify poems with your photos; combination library/Wikipedia/Instagram for poetry

Experimental writers can create poems by dragging around “palettes” of scrambled words.

A rhyme dictionary for your phone, for poets, rappers, and lyricists.