Calling All Poets!

To commemorate National Poetry Month, the New Brunswick Free Public Library will compile its Annual Poetry Month Celebration Anthology in April 2025. The Poetry Anthology is open to all poets – from novice to previously published, and from New Jersey or across the globe. The deadline for submissions is Friday, March 21, 2025. For details on submitting poems, you may download a Poetry Submission Form here (o haga clic aquí para español). Printed copies of the submission form will also be available at the library. Interested persons can contact Librarian Jackie Oshman at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call the library at 732-745-5108 x10 for more information.

Details about this year's Annual Poetry Month Celebration Anthology Reading will be announced closer to April.


The 24th* Annual Poetry Month Celebration Anthology is embedded in this page (to the right of this text) as of April 30, 2024. You may also download the PDF here.
Watch the recording of the April 30, 2024 Poetry Reading here:


Download 2023's Poetry Anthology here. The recording of last year's Poetry Reading, conducted via Zoom on April 24th, 2023, is available here.


2022's Anthology can be viewed here. 2022’s Reading was also conducted via Zoom; you can view the recording here. Check out this Tap Into New Brunswick article about our 2022 anthology!


The New Brunswick Free Public Library, co-sponsored by the Raritan Valley Federation of Libraries, compiled its first ever Virtual Annual Poetry Month Celebration Anthology in April 2021. You can watch the recording of the accompanying Virtual Poetry Reading here.

 

 

{*The New Brunswick Free Public Library has been celebrating National Poetry Month since 1998. The first year had a reading but no anthology, and we were unable to have either an anthology or a reading in 2020, so 2024 is the 26th year but has the 24th anthology.}