I'm doing the Poetry Friday Roundup this week. Please leave the URL of your poetry post in the comments. I'll be updating and adding links throughout the day.
NOTE: Sorry I'm later than usual posting the poetry links this morning. We had a family medical emergency this week. I've also had a stubborn sinus infection. My energy level is bit low at the moment.
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Just after Midnight Poetry Postings
At Wild Rose Reader today:
The Giant's Magic Harp Sings: A Fairy Tale Poem.
At
Blue Rose Girls, I have a poem by June Harvey titled
I Cannot Speak of War.Morning Poetry Postings and Some VillanellesTricia of The Miss Rumphius Effect has
a villanelle she wrote as part of the Poetry Seven's efforts.
Liz Garton Scanlon shares her villanelle,
First Date on the Railroad Trestle, at Liz in Ink.
Laura Purdie Salas joins in with
Fierce, her villanelle for the Poetry Seven group.
Sara Lewis Holmes shares
an original villanelle today as part of the Poetry Seven: Marrow, Friends, Each to Each. Kelly Fineman shares her villanelle
A Family Thanksgiving.
Mary Lee of a Year of Reading participates in Poetry Friday with three excerpts from Diane Ackerman poems. She says: “I’m trying to make sense of some recent tragedies that have touched not me directly, but lots of the people in my world. How do they/we keep going?” Check out her post:
Poetry Friday—I Praise My Destroyer.
Diane Mayr took on a poetry challenge to write englynion at
Random Noodling. Diane also shares
Flirtation, a poem by Rita Dove, at Kurious Kitty’s Kurio Kabinet. And at
Write Sisters, she takes a look at Mary Quattlebaum’s Winter Friends, a collection of poetry for children.
Andromeda Jazmon is in with a
Thanksgiving Villanelle she wrote as part of the Poetry Princess project.
Jama is celebrating Alice and Arlo today, with a little about her restaurant, 2 recipes, and Arlo's poem, "Mooses Come Walking” at
Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup.
Charlotte’s talks up today with three fun picture books in verse at
Charlotte
I'm doing the roundup this week. Please leave a note and the URL of your poetry post in the comments.
NOTE: I'll be out for some time today at the wake of a relative. I will continue adding links throughout the day.
Early Bird Edition
At
Wild Rose Reader, I have reviews of a
Valentine Hearts: Holiday Poetry and a picture book in verse entitled
The Ballad of Valentine.
At
Blue Rose Girls, I have a poem by the late John Updike entitled
Burning Trash.
Julie Larios has a poem entitled
Design by Billy Collins, one of my favorite poets, over at
The Drift Record.
At Janet joins us with some children’s poetry about astronomy in her post Twinkle On at her blog
Across the Page.
Cloudscome has a post featuring the great Langston Hughes at
A Wrung Sponge—just perfect for Black History Month.
You can count on
Tanita S. Davis for some oldies but goodies—some traditional “Counting Out” Rhymes—on Poetry Friday.
Like me, Sara Lewis Holmes is getting a head start on Valentine’s Day with
A Love Song by William Carlos Williams at
Read Write Believe.
Monica Edinger has a post about the talented Ashley Bryan, recipient of the 2009 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, at
Educating Alice.
Laura Salas presents the poem
Jaguar by Francisco X. Alarcon—and all the
Fifteen Words or Less poems of the week.
Lisa Chellman of
Under the Covers decided to take up a couple of poetry challenges this week. She gives us the results in her Poetry Friday post Promptalicious.
Jet informs me that she’ll be featuring poems of love and lust every Friday for the month of February at
The Incredible Thinking Woman.
Laura Shovan says she’s got her hand in the candy jar with Rita Dove's
Chocolate today at
Author Amok.
At
Mommy’s Favorite Children’s Books, Karen shares Robert Frost’s
Nothing Gold Can Stay.
Head on over to
Shelf Elf for
Famous, a poem by the great Naomi Shihab Nye.
Tricia’s sharing Paul Laurence Dunbar’s
Spring Song with us at
The Miss Rumphius Effect. I don’t know what the weather’s like in Virginia—but our poor old Massachusetts groundhog won’t be coming up for fresh spring air for a loooong time!
Diane of
The Write Sisters reviews the book
Wabi Sabi, one of my favorite picture books of 2008, and shares an original haiku.
Kurious Kity is exploring poetry about Abraham Lincoln today.
Our blogging epicurean,
Jama Rattigan is sharing
Say I Am You, by Rumi, with us today.
Sarah N. has Thomas Merton’s
Zero Weather for us at
In Need of Chocolate.
Do check out Linda Kulp’s lovely original poem
Singing Lessons at
Write Time.
This week's poem on the Stenhouse Blog is an original by Lucy Tobin:
English Lessons with a Tibetan Refugee Ex-Monk.
At
Black-Eyed Susan, you’ll find a poem by Nikki Giovanni entitled
Quilts.
Jennifer Knoblock joins us poetry posters with a Scrabblepoem at
Ink for Lit.
Lorie Ann Grover shares
Garden, an original poem written by her daughter for the collection they are writing for a resort in Cancun. She’s also got her original poem
Playful at
Readertotz.
At
Check It Out, Jone has posted some of her students’ poems.
John Mutford says he’s in with a poem by Italian-Canadian poet, Domenico Capilongo at
The Book Mine Set.
Sylvia Vardell has posted a list of more children's poetry to come in 09 and a poem-slide show on what's poetry at
Poetry for Children.
More Friday Morning Poetry Posts
Our fellow blogger and popular children’s poet Douglas Florian gives us another sneak peek at his soon-to-be-published poetry collection about prehistoric animals entitled
Dinothesaurus. Today he presents a poem about Pterrifying Pterosaurs at the
Florian Café. (P.S. The poem’s pterrific!)
Barbara H. of
Stray Thoughts has two winter poems today,
The Snow Folks by an unknown author and
The Winter Evening by William Copwer.
Susan Thomsen joins us in the roundup with a link to John Updike's
Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children at
Chicken Spaghetti.
Today, at A Habit of Reading, Fiddler gives us a poem about music.
This poem is by Elizabeth Bishop, a 20th Century, New England-born writer.
Karen Edmisten is in with a poem by e. e. cummings entitled
i carry your heart with me.
Nandini was up half the night with a sick child. Inspired by the experience, she presents, for our Poetry Friday reading pleasure an original poem entitled
Sick Kid at
Notes from New England.
At
Page after Page, Kim has a lovely little poem by Sara Teasdale and a Vincent van Gogh painting.
Tracie Zimmer has an untitled poem by Izumi Shikibu from
THE INK DARK MOON.
Little Willow has posted
The Picture-Show over at
Bildungsroman.
Yat-Yee Chong contributes to the Poetry Friday Roundup this week with
Adding it Up by Phillip Booth.
The Literary Lunch BunchAt
Knocking from the Inside, Tiel Aisha Ansari gives us an original AI Sonnet that she wrote without(?) the help of computers or anything else. Honest!
Head on over to
Scrub-a-Dub-Tub for a review of Kenn Nesbitt’s book
My Hippo Has the Hiccups and Other Poems I Totally Made Up.
Annie says that she’s been thinking a lot about possibilities this week and that brought Emily Dickinson to mind. Check out her Poetry Friday post at
Crazy for Kids Books.
Over at
A Patchwork of Books, Amanda is featuring the book
The Negro Speaks of Rivers, with a poem by Langston Hughes.
Becky has a review of
Jazz ABZ by Wynton Marsalis at Becky’s Book Reviews.
At
Liz in Ink, Liz shares some musings on space and
The Aged Sun, a poem by J. Patrick Lewis.
Anastasia Suen says she’s got a jazzy picture book for us today:
Cool Daddy Rat.
Jill presents
Immersed, her final poem for the “unofficial”
Jill Corcoran's Original Poem Poetry Week.
This week, Kelly Fineman gives us a Poetry Friday post about Epigrams at
Writing and Ruminating. Kelly also has a short original poem entitled
Tides for us today.
Poetry Friday: Evening Edition
Kelly Polark has some Eloise Greenfield for us today—as well as a remembrance of a children’s literature course she took in college and the teacher who taught it.
Meredith has some Emily Dickinson for us today at
Happy Hearts Mom.
Mary Lee of
A Year of Reading says she joining the poetry posters with metaphors -- Billy Collins', hers, and her students'.
Martha Calderaro has thoughts about music today, so she’s linked to lyrics of a David Byrne/Brian Eno song. Martha is curious what Poetry Friday bloggers might be listening to these days for inspiration. She welcomes all to join the conversation at
her blog.
At
Brand New Ending, Schelle shares a little of her VERY hot summer with us in her original ballade
Eucalyptus trees.
Debbie Diesen of
Jumping the Candlestick shares an original poem about February—which she claims is NOT her favorite month.
Late Night Edition
Becky at
Farm School has midnight snack of poems about (and by) Abraham Lincoln for us.
Stacey from Two Writing Teachers shares an original poem inspired by Collins and Friot at
365 Memories, Poems, and Slices of Life.
Saturday Morning Music
Mike Thomson of
Dominant Reality gives us the lyrics of The Trapeze Swinger, a song written by Sam Beam—and a video of the song performed by Beam and the band Iron & Wine.
I'm doing the Poetry Friday Roundup this week. Please leave the URL of your poetry post along with your comment.
Thanks!
Early Morning Edition
Here at
Wild Rose Reader, I have an interview with children’s poet and anthologist Paul B. Janeczko.
At
Blue Rose Girls, I have
Grief Calls us to the Things of This World, a poem by Sherman Alexie.
John Mutford at the
Book Mine Set is in with review of an anthology of Chinese-Canadian poetry called
Swallowing Clouds.
Kelly Fineman joins the Poetry Friday Posters with
Remember, a poem by by Christina Rossetti, over at
Writing and Ruminating.Stacey from
Two Writing Teachers has an original poem for us entitled
The Climbing Tree.
Tadmack took time out from packing to post
Animal Spirits, a poem by Denise Levertov, at
Finding Wonderland.Stacey has the start of a thinking/wondering poem draft over at her blog,
Crafty Creations. She said she’ll be writing the poem today in Writing Workshop alongside her kids.
At
A Wrung Sponge, Cloudscome has three lovely haiku written by Richard Wright for us--and of course, some beautiful photographs!
Sara Lewis Holmes of
Read Write Believe has a poem from Rainer Maria Rilke’s
Book of Hours: Love Poems to God.
Tricia has posted
A Baseball Poem by J. Patrick Lewis at
The Miss Rumphius Effect. Writer2b has a review of Madeleine L'Engle's poetry collection
A Cry Like a Bell.
Sylvia Vardell of
Poetry for Children has a review of Naked Bunyip Dancing, a book written by Australian poet Steven Herrick.
Mary Lee Hahn of
A Year of Reading has a “take-off” poem she wrote for Charlotte Huck's poetry class when she was getting her MA at OSU.
At
Read. Imagine. Talk, Jenny is in with some thoughts about Elizabeth Bishop's
One Art.Laura Salas posts her traditional Friday 15 Words or Less Poems.
Laura Salas also has a review of
Brian Cleary’s Rainbow Soup.
Sarah Reinhard of
Just Another Day of Catholic Pondering, joins in the poetry posters with
Queen of the Apostles.
At
Picture Book of the Day, Anastasia Suen is groovin’ with
Jazz by Walter Dean Myers.
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More Friday Morning Poetry Posts
Little Willow of
Slayground gives us Ellen Grover’s
No Longer for this last Poetry Friday in May.
At
Write Time, Linda Kulp has an original
Tribute Pantoum she wrote for her mother who was recently diagnosed with lung cancer.
Jama Rattigan is sharing
Monologue for an Onion, by Suji Kwock Kim.
Karen Edmisten has a post and a survey about Emily Dickinson for us.
Christine M. has
Spring Carol by Robert Louis Stevenson at
The Simple and the Ordinary.Guess who else has an original poem for us this Friday? Kelly Herold of
Big A, little a! Here she is! And it's still morning, even.
MotherReader has a poem from and review of
Red Butterfly.
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The Poetry Lunch Bunch
At
Knocking from Inside, Tiel Aisha Ansari has posted an original poem, inspired by Gerard Manley Hopkins'
Pied Beauty.
At
Becky’s Book Reviews, Becky’s got an original haiku celebrating the good news that beef brisket is GOOD for you!
Check out the Haiku from Mrs’ Fisher’s Class at
Check It Out.Maybe you’re in the mood for a little Wordsworth this last Friday of May? Then head on over to
HipWriterMama.
Susan T. of
Chicken Spaghetti of chicken spaghetti is looking for some poems about princesses and parties. If you’ve got any suggestions, let her know.
The Old Coot says: “It's not the normal time of year for reading
In Flanders Fields, but I have it anyway for current-events reasons.”
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Friday Night Poetry Feast
(NOTE: I'm sorry for the delay in posting the following links. I'm feeling a bit under the weather today and spent the past few hours sleeping.)
Sarah Miller of
Reading, Writing, Musing… gives us a poem by Hafiz entitled
In A Circus Booth.
At
Adventures in Daily Living, Suzanne is sharing a Tom Robinson poem.
Jules of
7-Imp has posted the entire text of two poems and some prose from
Honeybee, a book written by one of my favorite poets--Naomi Shihab Nye.
Liz in Ink has a short post about her school's literacy parade and an original poem by one of her daughters about vacation!
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Late Addition
J. Patrick Lewis lends his poetic talent to a somber subject in The Brothers' War: Civil War Voices in Verse. The Brothers' War is a thought-provoking and beautiful book. It's also a multi-layered poetic history, with Lewis writing in different voices and different poetic forms.
Two lines open The Brothers' War: Civil War Voices in Verse--two lines alone on a two-page spread in dark brown: "If war is nothing more than lists of battles/Then human lives count less than saber rattles". Lewis brings the human voice to the Civil War, inhabiting the persons of those long gone.
The Brothers' War benefits not only from Lewis's verse, but also from stunning composition. Each two-page spread contains a photo from the Civil War era, one of Lewis's poems, and a paragraph on either the person in whose voice Lewis speaks or the subject of the poem. The grays, blacks, browns, and whites that make up The Brothers' War fit the subject and the verse perfectly.
Take, for example, "Boys in a Brothers' War," a poem devoted to the Battle of Seven Pines. (The poem is subtitled 'near Richmond Virginia, May 31, 1862." The poem opens:
In the bloody Battle of Seven Pines,
a young soldier, Absalom Flowers,
whose mother baked the most delicious cobbler
in Roanoke, whose father was nothing really,
stopped a Union bullet with his face. Rolling slowly
downhill, he concluded on the home of a vole.
A sprawling monument to insanity.
A photo of a tree on the banks of a creek faces the poem, and the note tells us, "The Battle of Seven Pines was an exercise in calamity."
Lewis chooses different poetic forms throughout The Brothers' War to match his subject and voice. "I Am Fast In My Chains" is in the voice of Frederick Douglass and stands opposite Douglass's famous portrait. The poem begins:
Down where the slaves lie broken
Under a slant-wind sky,
The sleepy land heard spoken
Words to electrify.
Bleak history of two nations,
My own slave narrative
Told what the white plantations
Took but refused to give.
Lewis writes in his notes on the poems, "Frederick Douglass's slave narrative is one of the most powerful political documents ever written and the inspiration for my poem. The rhythmic and rhyming form seemed to have just the right flavor to evoke Douglass's voice."
Lewis's notes on the poems are wonderful. He explains why he rhymes in some, why he uses a sonnet for another, why he chose a certain rhythm. His notes add further complexity to an already superb work.
Because of its intense subject matter, The Brothers' War: Civil War Voices in Verse is best suited for children eight and older. This book is perfect for children in Middle School studying American history systematically for the first time. Highly recommended.
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Don't miss Bruce's interview with J. Patrick Lewis at Wordswimmer.
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The Poetry Friday roundup is here today. I'll be doing it old school--adding links in throughout the day. Leave your links in the comments!
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First linkage: 8am. Let the roundup begin!
The Cole Mine is first out of the gate with a "short and sweet" poetic quote on family from Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Becky of Becky's Book Reviews goes for the sublime with a Muppet song (and video clip!), "I Am My Own Grandpa."
Suzanne of Adventures in Daily Living returns to Lucy Shaw this week with "Freezing Rain."
Gregory K. of Gotta Book goes for the laughs today with the original "Mom's Meatloaf."
Mary Lee (A Year of Reading) also contributes an original--a poetry chant called "The Solace of Open Places or It's Not the End of the Earth, But You Can See it From Here." Great stuff, Mary Lee!
Tricia--The Miss Rumphius Effect--celebrates Edna St. Vincent Millay's birthday today with two poems.
Just One More Book is talking A Bird About to Sing--a "gorgeous picture book about a young girl celebrating her poet-self."
Laura Salas is busy this morning! She's looking for help defining the "difference between poetic prose and a poem, specifically in picture books." If you have some ideas, head on over and help her out. Laura also shares some 15 words or less poems this morning. (I love "Why Did I Think I Should Learn Web Design?")
Cloudscome shares "February," by Margaret Atwood, and is enjoying the snow at A Wrung Sponge.
Writer2be contributes a John Mole children's poem --"Variation on an Old Rhyme"--at Findings.
Watch out for Sara Lewis Holmes! This week she commemorates her experience boxing with "One Stick Song," by Sherman Alexei (also a boxer) at Read Write Believe.
Kerry the Shelf Elf reviews Jack Prelutsky's The Wizard (fantastic illustrations by Brandon Dorman).
Jama Rattigan's in love with Paul McCartney and explains why in a beautiful post at Alphabet Soup. (I'm a George girl myself, but this is a fantastic post. Jama almost has me convinced.)
The Queen of Poetry Friday--Elaine Magliaro--has posted an original cento to Harriet Tubman at Wild Rose Reader, and, ooh!, a list poem from one of my favorite poets, Szymborska, at Blue Rose Girls.
MmeT shares a Mary Oliver poem, "Hummingbird Pauses at the Trumpet Vine," at Destined to Become a Classic.
M.F. Atkins reviews Cybils finalist for Poetry Your Own Sylvia, by Stephanie Hemphill, at World of Words.
Sarah Miller hopes spring is on its way (Me too, Sarah! I'm at the end of a very short rope) with a short and joyful poem by Rumi.
Jules is a-swooning with and, she says, the "love poem of all love poems" by John Frederick Nims at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
Laurel shares one of John Berryman's Dream Songs--Number 14 to be precise--at Kid*Lit(erary).
Liz B. (A Chair, a Fireplace and a Tea Cozy) is inspired by the television show Supernatural (Man, I feel out of it) and shares two poems reminiscent of two characters ("pretty, pretty boys"--Sam and Dean).
Susan of Wizards Wireless is also thinking weather today and contributes "Whether the Weather," by Author Unknown.
Karen Edminsten shares a lovely little poem by Ramona on the wonder that is celery. Beautiful.
50 comments. Wow! Okay, now where was I? Oh, here I am...
Tiel Aisha Ansari has an original--"I Could Be"--at Knocking from the Inside.
Anastasia Suen shares from Birdsongs, by Betsy Franco and illustrated by Steve Jenkins, at 6 Traits.
Stacey at Two Writing Teachers is raising awareness about upcoming World Water Day (March 22) with two lovely stanzas from Shania Fernandes.
Jill shares some Thomas Hardy ("The Voice") at The Well-Read Child.
Sandhya of Literary Safari raves about PoetryFoundation.org's The Poem as Comic Strip series and quotes from this month's entry: "Recitative" by A.E. Stalling, illustrated by Kikuo Johnson.
First-time Poetry Friday participant, Lara of Paper Doll, shares some Billy Collins and some pretty cute photos of her daughter.
Wa-hoo! An audiobook blog! Mary Burkey, of Audiobooker, reviews Blues Journey, by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Christopher Myers, and produced by Live Oak Media for Poetry Friday.
Little Willow contributes "She Didn't Mean to Do It," by Daisy Fried, at Bildungsroman.
Cheryl Rainfield joins the Poetry Friday crowd with an original--"A Good Book."
Gina MarySol Ruiz shares "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," by John Donne, in memory of a friend at AmoXicalli.
Hey, it's George Washington's birthday. RM1(SS) (Ret) shares "Our Worshipful Brother, George Washington" (author unknown) at The Old Coot. And, Chris, of The Simple and the Ordinary, shares "George Washington's Birthday: Wondering," by Bobbi Katz. And, Becky at Farm School shares a letter and a poem by Phillis Wheatley addressed to George Washington. And, late entry: Sherry from Semicolon interrupts her blog break with some Washingtonian poetry.
Jennifer shares an "add-on" song in honor of a new car at S/V Mari Hal-O-Jen. (A new car definitely deserves a new song. Congrats, Jennifer!)
Our brave Kelly Fineman shares how to prepare to be a featured poetry reader at Writing and Ruminating. Congratulations, Kelly! I'm sure you knocked their socks off.
Liz Garton Scanlon shares an original from 1999--"March Birthday." It's a sad, but touching poem.
Susan of Chicken Spaghetti gives us a mini-review of The Secret of Me, a Young Adult novel in verse by Meg Kearney and links of some of Kearney's work.
MotherReader reviews Carver: A Life in Poems, by Marilyn Nelson. Like The Brothers' War, Carver: A Life in Poems contains poems written in different voices.
John Mutford shares an original called "Age" at The Book Mine Set.
Alyssa of The Shady Glade is reading e.e. cummings in American Lit and so shares "anyone lived in a pretty how town. "
Tadmack contributes a poem for all the worriers of the world--"Whatif," by Shel Silverstein--at Finding Wonderland. And that "blissfully peaceful completely unexceptional weekend of relaxation" you wish us all? I hope you have one too, in the end.
Uh-oh. Crispus Attucks of Dominant Reality had a little accident with his Suburban and felt the blues. Fortunately, Crispus found Langston Hughes with his own "The Blues" for Poetry Friday. (Could be worse, Crispus. I just backed into my neighbor's Suburban. Awkward.)
Poetry Maven Sylvia Vardell reviews the Cybils Poetry winner, This is Just to Say, by Joyce Sidman, at Poetry for Children.
Miss Erin contributes "Here is a wound that never will heal, I know...," by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Annie at Crazy For Kids Books shares one of her favorite read-alouds--"Jaberwocky," by Lewis Carrol--for her very first PF entry. Welcome, Annie!
Alotalot contributes "My Doggy Ate My Homework," by Dave Crawly, at At Little of This, A Little of That.
Charlotte of Charlotte's Library shares two snow poems from Robert Graves in honor of snow in Rhode Island. (Here in Smalltown, Charlotte, we've had over 50 inches since December 1. I'm happy to send more your way!)
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Good morning, Elaine! I'm in today with a Mary Oliver poem. Thanks for hosting!
Hi, Elaine. I feature the rhyming picture book WHO LIKES RAIN? by Wong Herbert Yee on Picture Books & Pirouettes this week. Thanks!
http://kerryaradhya.blogspot.com/2012/05/who-likes-rain.html
Hi Elaine - thanks for hosting!
I ended my Poetry Month celebration with Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis on video with his poem "Mosquito" as well as a video interview.
http://www.nowaterriver.com/poetry-month-2012-childrens-poet-laureate-j-patrick-lewis/
Have a happy day!
Good morning! I've done The President's Stuck in the Bathtub by Susan Katz.
http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production/2012/05/04/review-of-the-day-the-presidents-stuck-in-the-bathtub-by-susan-katz/
Sorry-I forgot the link! http://teacherdance.blogspot.com/2012/05/words-worth-saving.html
Good morning Elaine. Thanks for hosting. Today I have three poems in celebration of the ordinary.http://www.carolwscorner.blogspot.com/2012/05/poetry-friday-pleasure-in-ordinary.html
Thank you Elaine. Hope you have a wonderful first May weekend! I am sharing an essay today that tells of the personal importance of poetry and a mother's day poem by Ted Kooser.
Thanks for hosting, Elaine! I'm in with two original poems this week:
One is inspired by a great painting:
http://cracklesofspeech.blogspot.com/2012/05/poem-had-draft-horses-in-george.html
The other is a bit of zoo-illogical nonsense:
http://cracklesofspeech.blogspot.com/2012/05/nonsense-beyond-my-windows.html
Steven Withrow
I have a couple of spring haiku over at Write. Sketch. Repeat.
http://www.katyaczaja.com/posts/haiku-poetry-friday/
Hi Elaine,
I have a silly, original poem, "Detour," at Growing Wild http://www.lizsteinglass.com/
Can't wait to follow the Poetry Friday trail.
Liz
Do you like obscene words? If so, you'll like Diane Lockward's poem:
http://jamarattigan.com/2012/05/04/friday-feast-talk-almost-dirty-to-me-diane-lockward/
Thanks for hosting today!
Hi Elaine!
I am back in action today introducing my new branch of applied statistics ... POEMETRICS!
I want everyone to come by to share their opinions before I start to lay down some facts!
http://thinkkidthink.com/poemetrics-part-1
Twitter sonnets??!!
http://dorireads.blogspot.com/2012/05/sonnets-in-strangest-places.html
At Random Noodling I have a look at NH poets.
The war is over, and so is the book, at Kids of the Homefront Army. It's been a great run!
Kurious Kitty recommends The Poets Laureate Anthology, and, at Kurious K's Kwotes' Richard Eberhart describes poems.
Hi, Elaine. I left my link on your Thursday post, but just in case ...
I'm working on Fibonacci poems with third graders this week. My lesson and some student poems are at Author Amok.
http://authoramok.blogspot.com/2012/05/we-got-beat-fibonacci-poems-part-2.html
finishing up national poetry month with the final roundup of tweeted haiku.
http://fomagrams.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/poetry-friday-the-final-twitku-roundup/
thank you kindly for hosting us all today!
Hello, Elaine, and thank you for hosting.
It's been a rather horsey week over at The Write Sisters. We continue that theme with girl (three) and the black horse by Rg Gregory.
Jet
Thanks for hosting today, Elaine! Over at "A Teaching Life" I am sharing a collection of poems about manners (which are, actually, lots of fun to read!):
http://tmsteach.blogspot.com/2012/05/poetry-friday-oh-how-sylvester-can.html
Thanks for doing the round up today Elaine! I have a haiku/renku Daisy Chain done by the Poetry Sisters to share on my blog A Wrung Sponge. Great fun!
My offering is up: The Empty Juice Box Blues.
A daycare delinquent's lament.
Hi, Sally at PaperTigers is in with a post about a book about Old Order Mennonite children: http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress/poetry-friday-winterberries-and-apple-blossoms/
http://liz-scanlon.livejournal.com/191124.html
Hi Elaine: Here's my Poetry Sisters Renku post...
Thanks for hosting!
PaperTigers is in with a post on a book of poems about Old Order Mennonite children: http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress/poetry-friday-winterberries-and-apple-blossoms/
PaperTigers is in with a post on a book about Old Order Mennonite children: http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress/poetry-friday-winterberries-and-apple-blossoms/
Hi, Elaine - I'm up with an original poem, A Note for My Grandma (Left in her Kitchen).
Thanks for hosting!
Hi Elaine,
I read my first verse novel this week. My impressions of Stop Pretending by Sonya Sones are here:
http://line-upon-line.blogspot.ca/2012/05/verse-novels-and-review-of-one-of-them.html
Thanks, Elaine! Here's our new "A Poem is a Painting" at The FATHER GOOSE Blog
Thank you, Elaine!
At On Point I have A Perfect Pause.
And at readertotz we have Around the Block with Sesame Street. Thanks again!
A poem by me (an objective mother) for my grown daughter's birthday at Mainely Write:
http://mainelywrite.blogspot.com/2012/05/happy-birthday.html
I have two student poems.
http://maclibrary.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/poetry-friday-student-poetry-and-national-poetry-month-reflection/
Hi, Elaine. I'm taking a brief break from The Drift Record this week, but over at Books Around the Table I take a look at idioms in different languages as a source for poetic images.
http://booksaroundthetable.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/cats-dogs-rats-cabbages/
Hi Elaine,
I'm in today with my take on the daisy chain haiku.
http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/2012/05/poetry-friday-part-of-chain.html
Thanks for hosting.
I hope you are doing well.
Tricia
Hi Elaine! Thanks for hosting!
I wasn't able to leave a comment earlier due to the whims and fancies of my computer, but I am in with Dana Gioia's Pity the Beautiful:
http://tabathayeatts.blogspot.com/2012/05/pity-beautiful.html
Thank you for hosting! I have a Jane Yolen poem today. Here it is: here.
Thanks, Elaine for hosting today. I posted a review of Won Ton, A Cat Tale Told in Haiku by Lee Wardlaw at Musings www.joyceray.blogspot.com
Here is the link (sorry); http://books4learning.blogspot.com/2012/05/poetry-friday-pocketful-of-stars-poems.html
Thanks for hosting. Please add my post about A Pocketful of Stars: Poems about the Night.
Thanks for hosting Elaine! Got myself a new notebook and wrote on the first page today...finally!
http://teachingyoungwriters.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-notebook.html
A late night Friday Poem
Friday's Resolve
Hi Elaine, looks like my comment yesterday did not go through. My poetry offering this week in GatheringBooks is a poem from the beautiful and controversial Anais Nin - alongside photos of lovely flowers from the Singapore Botanical Gardens. Here is the link:
http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/poetry-friday-on-flowers-and-anais-nin/
Thank you so much for hosting this week.
Thanks for your thoroughness, Elaine. Really appreciate it!
I found this link in the comments on my post:
I posted lyrics from Matt Nathanson's song All We Are today at Bildungsroman:
http://slayground.livejournal.com/699647.html
http://slayground.livejournal.com/699647.html