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Each April, the Academy of American Poets creates and distributes—for free—almost 200,000 copies of the current National Poetry Month posters to U.S. schools, libraries, bookstores, and community centers to help promote the month-long celebration and to increase poetry awareness.
This year's poster was created by SpotCo, a New York City agency responsible for the lion’s share of poster and advertising designs for Broadway’s most popular shows.
Click on any image for a larger and more detailed version. Copies of National Poetry Month posters from previous years are available for $5.00 each while supplies last. To obtain a poster from previous years, send your request in writing, along with a check payable to The Academy of American Poets, Attn: NPM Poster Request, 584 Broadway Suite 604, New York, NY 10012.
Please note that we are unable to ship posters to international recipients. |
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2008 Poster
Design: SpotCo
Sponsors: The New York Times, National Endowment for the Arts, Random House, Inc., Merriam-Webster, The Poetry Foundation, and Americans for the Arts
The 2008 poster features a line from Jay Wright's poem "The Healing Improvisation of Hair": I carried my life, like a stone, / in a ragged pocket, but I / had a true weaving song, a sly / way with rhythm, a healing tone.
Request a copy of the 2008 Poster for your school, bookstore, library, or community center. For a full view, download a pdf of the poster here. |
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2007 Poster
Design: Christoph Niemann
Sponsors: The New York Times, National Endowment for the Arts, Random House, Inc., Merriam-Webster, The Poetry Foundation, and Con Edison
The 2007 poster features a line from Walt Whitman's poem "As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days": And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements of any.
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2006 Poster [NOW SOLD OUT!]
Design: Number Seventeen, NYC
Sponsors: The New York Times, National Endowment for the Arts, Random House, Inc., Merriam-Webster, The Poetry Foundation, and Con Edison
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2005 Poster [NOW SOLD OUT!]
Design: Chip Kidd
Sponsors: Con Edison, Merriam-Webster, The New York Times, National Endowment for the Arts, The Poetry Foundation, and Random House, Inc.
The 2005 poster features Emily Dickinson's dress and a quote from her letters: "Nature is a haunted house—but Art—is a house that tries to be haunted." |
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2004 Poster
Design: Milton Glaser
Sponsors: Merriam-Webster, Random House, The New York Times, National Endowment for the Arts, Con Edison, and Scholastic, Inc. |
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2003 Poster [NOW SOLD OUT!]
Design: Betsy Bell
Sponsors: Merriam-Webster, Random House, Gale Group, The New York Times, and Scholastic, Inc. |
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2002 Poster [NOW SOLD OUT!]
Photo credits
Design: Betsy Bell
Sponsors: Merriam-Webster, Random House, Gale Group, The New York Times, United States Postal Service, Scholastic, Inc., and Alfred A. Knopf. |
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2001 Poster
Design: Betsy Bell
Sponsors: Merriam-Webster, The New Yorker, Random House, Gale Group, The New York Times, and Alfred A. Knopf. |
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2000 Poster
Photo credits
Design: Betsy Bell
Sponsors: Alfred A. Knopf, The New York Times, Yahoo!, Merriam-Webster, Inc., The Gale Group, and The New Yorker. |
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1999 Poster
Photo credits
Design: Betsy Bell
Sponsors: Alfred A. Knopf, The New Yorker, Yahoo!, The Gale Group, and Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
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1999 Magazine Advertisement [NOT FOR SALE]
Design: Bennett Book Advertising |
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1998 Poster
Painting: Jasper Johns, Map (1961). Oil on Canvas, 6'6" x 10'3-1/8" (198.2 x 314.7 cm) © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Design: Betsy Bell
Sponsors: Gale Research, Yahoo!, Sanford, Inc., The New Yorker, and Alfred A. Knopf. |
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1998 Postcard [NOT FOR SALE]
Andrew Carroll, Executive Director of the American Poetry & Literacy (APL) Project on the eve of his coast-to-coast drive to distribute 100,000 books on poetry.
Photo & Design: Betsy Bell
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1998 Magazine Advertisement [NOT FOR SALE]
Photo: Boris Godunov © William Wegman
Quotation: The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, Ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Design: Bennett Book Advertising |
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1997 Poster
Illustration: Edward Koren
Design: Jessica Weber
Sponsor: Alfred A. Knopf |
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1996 Poster
Photo: Arthur Tress
Design: Michael Ian Kaye
Sponsors: Alfred A. Knopf, Viking Penguin, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
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1997 Magazine Advertisement [NOT FOR SALE]
Photo: Darius Kinsey, from Kinsey, Photographer, by Dave Bohn and Rodolfo Petschek, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Design: Betsy Bell | |
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