LibGuides: April Poetry Contest 2024: Home

Enter Your Poem

Thank you for all your wonderful submissions to the 2024 Poetry Contest!

We will leave the poems up for entire year until 2025's contest, so everyone can enjoy them.

Happy reading!

Prizes and Sponsors

Adult and Teen Category Prizes: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place will receive a gift card to Scout's Coffee Bar & Mercantile in High Bridge, New Jersey. They will also receive a commemorative rosette award.

Children's Category Prizes: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place will receive a gift card to H umdoo Ice Cream in Flemington, New Jersey. They will also receive a commemorative rosette award.

Thank you to these fantastic local businesses for supporting our community's poets!

National Poetry Month

"Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month reminds the public that poets have an integral role to play in our culture and that poetry matters. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K–12 teachers, librarians, booksellers, literary events curators, publishers, families, and—of course—poets, marking poetry's important place in our lives." - poets.org

Resources for Poets and Poetry Lovers:

NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April.
Poetry Foundation The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
Poetry Society of America The nation's oldest poetry organization, founded in 1910.
Poets.org
Poets & Writers Founded in 1970, Poets & Writers is the nation’s largest nonprofit organization serving creative writers. Our mission? To foster the professional development of poets and writers, to promote communication throughout the literary community, and to help create an environment in which literature can be appreciated by the widest possible public.

All winners received a special award ribbon and a gift card to Scout’s Coffee Bar & Mercantile in High Bridge. Hunterdon County Library staff members judged each entry anonymously – the judges did not have any names of the poets. Our judges put a lot of thought behind this work, and we appreciate their efforts!

All winners receive a special award ribbon and a gift card to Humdoo Ice Cream in Flemington. Hunterdon County Library staff members judged each entry anonymously – the judges did not have any names of the poets. Our judges put a lot of thought behind this work, and we appreciate their efforts!