The Milford Daily News This month, which is National Poetry Month, the library invites you to help create a community poem or poems. Tables in both the children's and adult areas have magnetic boards and words just waiting to be transformed into whole poems or single lines. We ask you to snap a picture of your poem or line on social media using "#MTLPoetry21." The Academy of American Poets established National Poetry Month in 1996 as a way to promote poetry reading, sharing, teaching and appreciation. With the breakthrough of Amanda Gorman, the young poet who performed at the inauguration and the Super Bowl, poetry is reaching its widest, youngest and most diverse audience yet.