Once again, I will embrace the challenge of starting (and finishing) a poem every day.
In Canada, the League of Canadian Poets has chosen "Family" as the theme:
Celebrate National Poetry Month 2025 using the theme FAMILY in its many forms: found and chosen family, birth family, and family that defies categorization.
This April, turn to poetry to celebrate, cherish, mourn, critique, and explore the myriad bonds that family forms in our lives. Parents, pets, friendships, soulmates, siblings, plants, and beyond: the League invites you to examine the shape of family in your life now, to witness the intergenerational impact of ancestors, and to consider the role of family in generations to come.
In America, the Academy of American Poets doesn't have a theme, but the poster includes a line from "Gate A-4" by Naomi Shibab Nye: “This / is the world I want to live in. The shared world.” A similar -- or "family-adjacent" -- idea, perhaps.
Perhaps you'll join me?
Regardless, there are, of course, many other people all over the world participating and you can find out what they're doing at NaPoWriMo.
I hope you'll follow along, share your thoughts, make suggestions, or even offer up challenges!
