Annual National Poetry Month Celebration
To commemorate National Poetry Month, the New Brunswick Free Public Library compiled its 24th* Annual Poetry Month Celebration Anthology in April 2024. 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 was Thursday, March 28, 2024.
Poets who submitted poems for the Anthology were invited to read their work at the library’s annual Poetry Celebration on Tuesday, April 30, at 7:00 p.m. online via Zoom. For more information, please contact Librarian Jackie Oshman at
The 24th Annual Poetry Month Celebration Anthology is embedded in this page (to the right of this text). 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.