For National Poetry Month this April, Poetry Daily would like to turn the spotlight on YOU, the loving READER of poetry, and invite you to write for us. We’d like you to choose any poem published on the Poetry Daily website since 2018 and tell us about it in 100 words or so.
What is it that makes you give yourself over to a poem? Which poem in Poetry Daily made you think, surprised you, moved you, or changed your world just a little?
Educators and students: we’d especially love to know what you think. What poems on Poetry Daily have excited you or inspired your own writing? How have our poems triggered students’ enthusiasm and teaching breakthroughs? If you are under eighteen, please let us know so that we might protect your privacy when we publish your contribution.
We’re not expecting a “professional” answer but one from your heart, nothing is too trivial—for a chance to be featured in our groundbreaking What Sparks Poetry series and win a free book!
Submissions to:
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(subject: National Poetry Month)
by March 30, 2026
