Happy National Poetry Month! Here’s Some (Free) POETRY & More!

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re happy to offer a free download of the April 2022 issue of Poetry! You can find the free issue in the Poetry Magazine App, available through the App Store, Google Play, and Amazon. You can also download a PDF of the issue here.

The April 2022 issue features new poems from exophonic poets, including Don Mee Choi, Ilya Kaminsky, Dunya Mikhail, Javier Zamora, and many, many more! The issue also contains a trio of essays: Ahmad Almallah writes of his work with Arab immigrants in Philadelphia with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture; Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis introduces us to the pop-up Center for Refugee Poetics that he founded with Ocean Vuong; and Sasha Pimentel recounts her experience teaching Latinx poets in the bilingual MFA program at the University of Texas at El Paso on the US–Mexico border.

If you download the app, you’ll also receive a notification once this month’s podcasts are available for listening.

Current subscribers can access all the digital issues in the app for free as part of our print/digital bundle—just enter your email address when prompted to log in. Not a subscriber? Sign up now with our special National Poetry Month offer: only $20 for a full year of Poetry! Get 11 issues delivered right to your mailbox.

There’s lots happening throughout the Poetry Foundation during National Poetry Month and beyond! On April 5th, there’s a virtual discussion with guest editor Srikanth Reddy on the March issue (free, RSVP required). April 7th marks the Poetry Foundation reopening to the public: hours can be found on our website, and our events page has several in-person and virtual options. In the gallery, the new exhibition, Monica Ong: Planetaria, opens on April 21. And throughout this spring, "Poetry and Publishing: Readers' Perspectives” will be the theme for our featured blogger series, with contributions from Noah Baldino, Chaelee Dalton, Lucia LoTempio, and Jenna Peng. Check the blog regularly for new posts.

Happy National Poetry Month!