A Celebration of Poetry in the Collections

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed March 21 as World Poetry Day, and April has been proclaimed National Poetry Month by the Academy of American Poets. In recognition, explore our poetry-related collections and listen to poetry with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Poet in Her Kitchen

e.e. cummings Self-Portrait

The Poet

The Poet

The Master Poets

An emperor visits Tulsidas

Langston Hughes

8c Emily Dickinson single

Drunken poets

A Famous Poet

On Modern Poets

Monument for a poet

Portrait of Audre Lorde

The Six Immortal Poets

Robert Frost

The Warrior Poet

Ntozake Shange

Button, Fisher Poets Gathering

Thirty-Six Poets

The Poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

Young Poet

The poet Sugawara Michizane at the seashore

Flyer, Fisher Poets Gathering

Stage Curtain: Minerva Honoring the Poets on Parnassus

Poets and Fetters

Among the Old Poets

Performers entertaining poets

From the Poet's Window

Sepulchral Monument for Poet Tagerini

Poster advertising a Last Poets performance

Woman, from the series "100 poets"

The Chap-Book (The Poet and His Lady)

Scottish Poet Robert Burns

Six poets

Costume Design: Gadsby, for A Touch of the Poet

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