April Is National Poetry Month

and you can sign up for an emailed poem-a-day here.
Apparently they skip weekends because the one below is for April 4.
There are all sorts of other features here.
Poet John Lundberg announced it all today on Huffington Post, and got this comment:

I celebrate National Poetry Month at my high school library with contests (including one which parodies Kilmer's poem Trees), poetry pillars and walls, magnetic poetry, and more. I asked the office to announce the contests, and the student who read my announcement said, "It's National Pottery Month" which one teacher interpreted as National Potty Mouth. I give up on student announcers. I'm doing my own announcement on Monday.

Assault to Abjury
by Raymond McDaniel
Rain commenced, and wind did. A crippled ship slid ashore. Our swimmer's limbs went heavy. The sand had been flattened. The primary dune, the secondary dune, both leveled. The maritime forest, extracted. Every yard of the shore was shocked with jellyfish. The blue pillow of the man o' war empty in the afterlight. The threads of the jellyfish, spent. Disaster weirdly neatened the beach. We cultivated the debris field. Castaway trash, our treasure. Jewel box, spoon ring, sack of rock candy. A bicycle exoskeleton without wheels, grasshopper green. Our dead ten speed. We rested in red mangrove and sheltered in sheets. Our bruises blushed backwards, our blisters did. is it true is it true God help us we tried to stay shattered but we just got better. We grew adept, we caught the fish as they fled. We skinned the fish, our knife clicked like an edict. We were harmed, and then we healed.
From Saltwater Empire by Raymond McDaniel. Copyright © 2008 by Raymond McDaniel. Published by Coffee House Press. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.