The 2025 poster features an excerpt from “Gate A-4”, a poem by former Young People’s Poet Laureate and Academy Chancellor Naomi Shihab Nye, as well as artwork by New York Times-bestselling author and illustrator Christy Mandin. Mandin was selected by Scholastic—the global children’s publishing, education, and media company—to create the artwork for this year’s poster as part of a National Poetry Month collaboration with the Academy of American Poets. A lesson plan featuring Nye’s poem will be available through the Academy’s Teach This Poem newsletter on March 10, 2025. Sign up for Teach This Poem to receive this additional educational resource and bring the poster to life for National Poetry Month.