Let's Get Ready to Party: National Poetry Month 2015

Calling all poets! 

Are you aware that National Poetry Month starts in 9 days?! Come April 1st, we'll be diving in to National Poetry Month, and we encourage you to get in on the celebration. National Poetry Month is the perfect time to shake off that writing funk or to keep pushing your daily writing sessions to go even further. It's practically a month-long holiday for poets; what's not to love? It's our time to shine, people!

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So, what's National Poetry Month?

Aside from the best month ever? Let's drop some knowledge.

In 1996, the American Academy of Poets started National Poetry Month, and it's been celebrated each April since then. Want to know the best part? National Poetry Month is for everyone! Seriously, anyone and everyone can join in on the National Poetry Month party. (For more information on the history of NPM, read this post)

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So, how can you celebrate?

1. Write every day.

No brainer? You bet.

National Poetry Month is the perfect time to set writing goals for yourself and dedicate a little time each day, just for your poetry. Whether you break out of that pattern that keeps coming up in your poems or you just get tons of new fodder for future poems, writing every day is the absolute best way to celebrate NPM. We have plenty of poetry prompts to keep your inspiration rolling. Don't give up!

2. Check in with us.

We're kicking it into overdrive next month, so you'd better buckle up. All throughout National Poetry Month, we're going to be sharing even more writing prompts, inspiration, and fun poetry projects, and we're pretty sure you aren't going to want to miss a moment.

3. Follow along.

Not only do we highly recommend following us on Twitter, Facebook, and all our other social media platforms to follow our own National Poetry Month celebrations. Don't forget to follow the website we love, Poets.org, too!we also recommend keeping tabs on #npm15 to see what the rest of the poetry community is doing to celebrate!

Happy poetry partying, friends. Let's get ready to celebrate!