Annual National Poetry Month Celebration
To commemorate National Poetry Month, the New Brunswick Free Public Library compiled its Annual Poetry Month Celebration Anthology, sponsored by the Raritan Valley Federation of Libraries, 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 was extended from Friday, March 21, to March 28, 2025.
All poets who submitted to the anthology were invited to read their published poems at the virtual Poetry Reading on Monday, April 28 at 7 p.m. Guests were invited to attend this event, which was free and open to the public to listen to the reading. For more information, please contact Librarian Jackie Oshman at
This year's anthology is embedded on this page (to the right of this text) as of April 23, 2025. You may also download the PDF here.
Watch the recording of the April 28, 2025 Poetry Reading here:
You may download the 24th* Annual Poetry Month Celebration Anthology as a PDF here. You may watch the recording of the April 30, 2024 Poetry Reading here.
You may download 2023's Poetry Anthology here. The recording of the 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 dowload the PDF here, and watch the recording of the accompanying Virtual Poetry Reading here.