APRIL IS POETRY MONTH 2026
April is Poetry Month and Margin Notes will be featuring ideas for celebrating poetry this month…and all year long.
We’ve updated our Poetry Month Resource Round-Up. You can access it here. You will also find many poetry ideas in our Craft Studio and Try This Tomorrow posts and in the archives of A 30-Day Writing Habit.
I’ve been thinking a lot about these words from Susan Goldsmith Woolridge:
It’s impossible to teach anyone to write a poem. But we can set up the conditions in which poems are likely to happen. We can create a field in and around us that’s fertile territory for poems. Playing with words, we can get to the place where poems come from. We can write and make discoveries about who we are and who we might become…
I hope you and your students enjoy a month of joyful curiosity about words and where they might take us.
Happy Poetry Month!