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Academy of American Poets official National Poetry Month April 2026 poster — illustrated Gothic stone-arch doorway scene: a hooded figure in a wine-red cloak stands in shafted sunlight from above, reaching up toward a hovering sword by its hilt; a red fox sits at the lower-left grass with a small black crow on a stone step at center bottom; ivy climbs the right side of the stonework; poster headline 'Even if the darkness precedes and follows us, we have a chance, briefly, to shine. — Arthur Sze'; bottom panel reads 'National Poetry Month April 2026' with sponsor logos (Academy of American Poets / poets.org, Poetry, Penguin Random House, Norton, Graywolf, BETSY, Sundance, NCTE, Midland, Sappi, Billerud); design and illustration by Alfredo Bichuet / Nélida Taller Creativo, lines from 'The Chance' by Arthur Sze (from The Reshifting Web: New & Selected Poems, Copper Canyon Press, 1998)