Got this in the mail from Poets.org this morning:

“Dear Friends,

We are less than $900 away from our year-end goal of raising $10,000 to ensure the strength of the Academy of American Poets’ programs in the year ahead. We need your help to support our work to offer poems and resources on Poets.org and through Poem-A-Day, to inspire new readers to come to poetry during National Poetry Month in April, and to provide new materials that enable educators to inspire their students to write poetry on our Online Poetry Classroom.

Please consider a tax-deductible contribution to the Academy of American Poets.

All of the resources we provide are made available for free. But of course they’re not actually without cost. Each year we rely on contributions from generous individuals like you to underwrite our work, enabling us to offer our programs to the widest possible public.

As we head toward a new year, we at the Academy aspire to the day that poets in the U.S. are as revered as they are in other countries, where they are celebrated in great halls and pubs alike. We believe poetry can matter to everyone, and that our lives are deeply enriched by the art form. In the words of Langston Hughes, please help us “hold fast to our dreams.”

Your tax-deductible contribution to the Academy of American Poets will enable us to continue our important work to promote poets and poetry in the year ahead. We’re resolved!

I thank you in advance for joining us, and in appreciation of donations of $50 or more, we will happily send you a copy of our Poem in Your Pocket anthology.

Yours,

Jennifer Benka
Executive Director, Academy of American Poets

I don’t know how many of you use Poets.org but they run all sorts of programs from the “poem-a-day” sent out in email (kinda my favorite) to providing support and exposure for poets. You can even adopt a poet. If you have a few bucks you can spare please consider sending a donation.

Thanks – Kit