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Welcome to our interactive Poetry in the Classroom Calendar, designed to inspire ideas for bringing poetry into your classroom throughout the 2019–2020 academic year. Click the linked icons and text to discover related resources.

For more than five decades, we’ve been dedicated to serving K–12 teachers through our programs and resources. Today, we’re the only poetry organization that offers materials for teachers overseen by an education expert. Our Educator in Residence, Dr. Madeleine Holzer, ensures that our education content is of the highest quality.

Visit our website, Poets.org, and find over 3,000 biographies of poets, over 10,000 poems discoverable by theme and occasion, plus lesson plans, short essays on poetic terms, guides to poetic schools and movements, and more...

Browse Our Lesson PlansRead Essays on Teaching PoetrySign Up for Teach This Poem and Our Educator NewsletterCreate a Poetry Anthology to Share with StudentsParticipate in the Dear Poet ProjectCelebrate National Poetry MonthSign Up for Poem-a-DayFind Poetry Near YouRead Poems for KidsBrowse Poetry Resources for Teens

We hope you have a great school year. And we’re sincerely grateful for all that you do! Here’s hoping our calendar makes it a little easier.

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BIRTHDAY Stephen Crane (b. 1871)National Author's DayBIRTHDAY C. K. Williams (b. 1936)Election DayBIRTHDAY Anne Sexton (b. 1928)Veterans DayBIRTHDAY Robert Louis Stevenson (b. 1850)BIRTHDAY Marianne Moore (b. 1887)BIRTHDAY Ted Berrigan (b. 1934)BIRTHDAY Paul Celan (b. 1920) Thanksgiving BIRTHDAY William Blake (b. 1757)

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BIRTHDAY Wallace Stevens (b. 1879)World Teachers Day—Thank you for all you do!BIRTHDAY Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ DayBIRTHDAY E. E. Cummings (b. 1894)Dictionary DayBIRTHDAY Jupiter Hammon (b. 1711)Black Poetry DayBIRTHDAY John Berryman (b. 1914) National Poetry Month Poster Contest ClosesBIRTHDAY Sylvia Plath (b. 1932) Statue of Liberty Dedicated, 1886BIRTHDAY Ezra Pound (b. 1885)Halloween

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New Year’s DayBIRTHDAY Carl Sandburg (b. 1878)BIRTHDAY Robert Duncan (b. 1919) BIRTHDAY Philip Levine (b. 1928) BIRTHDAY Robinson Jeffers (b. 1887)BIRTHDAY Laura Riding Jackson (b. 1901)BIRTHDAY William Stafford (b. 1914)Thesaurus DayBIRTHDAY Edgar Allan Poe (b. 1809)Martin Luther King Jr. DayBIRTHDAY George Gordon Byron (b. 1788)National Handwriting DayBIRTHDAY Robert Burns (b. 1759)BIRTHDAY Lewis Carroll (b. 1832)

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BIRTHDAY George Herbert (b. 1593)BIRTHDAY Maya Angelou (b. 1928) BIRTHDAY William Wordsworth (b. 1770) BIRTHDAY Charles Baudelaire (b. 1821) BIRTHDAY Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)Abraham Lincoln Dies, 1865BIRTHDAY U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith (b. 1972)Haiku Poetry DayPaul Revere’s Ride, 1775Earth DayNational Library Week BeginsBIRTHDAY William Shakespeare (b. 1564) Children’s Book Week BeginsDear Poet Letters Due

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