The Poetry Friday Roundup Is Here!

The Poetry Friday Roundup is at Wild Rose Reader this week. Leave the URL of your poetry post in the comments. I'll be rounding up all the links throughout the day.

The Friday Morning Poetry Pack

Charles Ghigna—also known as Father Goose—says he’d like to “Open the door a little more with ONE at the Bald Ego blog. He’d also like to share a few SNICKERS with us.

Ruth has Pablo Neruda’s Ode to a Lizard at There is no such thing as a God-forsaken town.

Toby Speed shares an original poem about a “famous shoe” at The Writer’s Armchair.

At the Poem Farm, Amy has poem #4 in her series of poems about reading and books—and poem #5 of sock week. (Amy's got original poems for us every day of the week--not just of Fridays.)

Mary Lee of A Year of Reading has an original acrostic about “balance” today. (She says she’s trying to get some in her own life.)

Irene Latham gives us Mary Oliver’s What Is the Greatest Gift? this Poetry Friday.

Poet Heidi Mordhorst shares an original poem by her daughter titled ask mom at My Juicy Little Universe.

At A Journey in Learning, Debbie Diller has a poem by Sallie Wolf titled Cardinals from Wolf's book The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound.

Over at The Stenhouse Blog, you’ll find the poem Teacher by Sharon Draper.

Diane Mayr says she’s looking at oatmeal poems this week at Random Noodling. And at Kurious K’s Kwotes, she’s got a quote by Mackenzie Conneellee. She’s also “remembering Reynolds Price at Kurious Kitty’s Kurio Kabinet.

David Elzey reexamines a puzzling moment of his youth called “job interview #1.”

Children’s poet Laura Salas shares a lovely original poem titled Wintry Warmth at Writing the World for Kids. She’s also in with her weekly 15 Words or Less Poems.

Jama Rattigan adds Tomatoes to the Friday feast over at Alphabet Soup—the poem Tomatoes by Stephen Dobyns, that is.

Dorraine Bennett has the winning poem from the regional Poetry Out Loud contest at DoriReads. It’s "Who Understands Me but Me" by Jimmy Santiago Baca.

At Semicolon, Sherry presents Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Tabatha Yeatts has Rattle for us this Poetry Friday.

Blythe Woodson gives us Figment: A Space for Poetry on Poetry Friday.

At Deo Writer, MsMac shares William Stafford’s Ask Me.

Ben at The Small Nouns has the latest in his Poetry Mix Tape series.

The Write Sisters are offering up Eleanor Lerman’s Starfish for our poetry reading pleasure.

In her post Stepping Toward the Brink—of Paper, author/poet Jeannine Atkins shares a poem she wrote about finding inspiration through her senses.

PaperTigers joins in the Poetry Friday fun with a post about Canadian poet P. K. Page.

I’m in at Wild Rose Reader with a first draft of an original poem titled It’s Snowing Again!—which was inspired by all the winter storms we’ve had here recently.



The Literary Lunch Bunch

At Blue Rose Girls, I have an original fairy tale poem titled Dear Goldilocks that I wrote in the form of a letter.

Kelly Fineman is in with an excerpt from Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth—which relates to yesterday’s chapter of Pride and Prejudice at her blog Writing and Ruminating.

Janet Squires has a post about the book Bees, Snails, & Peacock Tails, which was written by Betsy Franco and illustrated by Steve Jenkins.

Tara says that a random encounter with a lost pet sign made her think about a particular Mark Doty poem.

Carlie serves up Aztec Drink in January, an original poem, at her blog Twinkling Along.

Sheri Doyle is revisiting a favorite poem by Ezra Pound today.

Take a one-click trip over to The Drift Record where award-winning poet Julie Larios has Double Abecedarian, an original double abecedarian about how to write double abecedarians.
I think I'd need more than one lesson to write one of those poems!


Early Evening Poetry Tastings

Liz Scanlon is in this Poetry Friday with some librarian love…

At One Deep Drawer, you’ll find a poem by W. A. Mathieu about Bach dying on the day after Mozart’s birth.


The Late Edition

Rasco from RIF has a poem by Linda Hull related to the Chinese New Year, which will be celebrated on February 3rd.

You'll find a book spine poem over at Looking for the Write Words.


Saturday Morning Special

Sylvia Vardell has an interesting interview with award-winning poet and anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins about the future of publishing poetry for children. Click here to read the interview.


Special Edition Sunday

Over at TeachingAuthors they're talking about organizing your writing...and your life. April Halprin Wayland has an interview with Clutter Buster Brooks Palmer about his book . She also offers an original poem (and two drawings) about cleaning out the clutter.

The Poetry Friday Roundup: September 17, 2010

POETRY ROUNDUP--MORNING EDITION

Here, at Wild Rose Reader, I have another original list poem titled Things to Do If You Are a Mole.

Over at The Drift Record, Julie Larios has a jump-rope rhyme made all of questions that she wrote for Tricia's Poetry Stretch this week.

Toby Speed has a review of Skywriting: Poems to Fly over at The Writer's Armchair.

Gregory K. has a guest post about PoetrE up over at David L. Harrison's blog today.

At A Year of Reading Mary Lee has a rainbow, a song (no surprises which one), and some great news about a certain Poetry Friday panel session at KidLitCon.

Tabath Yeatts has haiku, pie-ku, and a giveaway today at her blog today.

Andromeda Jazmon has a review of Hip Hop Dog by Raschka & Radunsky over at A Wrung Sponge.

And at Poem Farm, Amy has an original poem, Mother Poet, #17 in her series of poems about poems. She also features a picture (not poetry) book that makes its debut tomorrow.

Ruth's got a Hitomaro poem for us today at her blog.

Laura Salas has a poem from Dark Emperor, Joyce Sidman’s wonderful new collection of night poems about the woodland.

Laura also presents the weekly 15 Words or Less poems.

Over at the Paper Tigers blog, Sally has a post about Wombat Walkabout.

Jone found a poem about autumn by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Check it out at Check It Out.

Head on over to Jama’s Alphabet Soup for a taste of some clever light verse written by one of my favorite children’s poets—J. Patrick Lewis.

Diane Mayr talks about a way to have a poetry collection published at The Write Sisters.

Diane also announces Catzilla! and shares a cat tanka at Random Noodling.

Laura Shovan says she’s back after a break. You'll find an onomatopoeia mini-lesson using Carolyn Crimi's picture book The Louds Move In! at Author Amok.

This week at the Stenhouse Blog you’ll find a poem and some wisdom from Tao Te Ching.

David Elzey says: “i'm in this week with a parody of robert frost that also happens to be true. mostly true. about me and crows.”

At Writing and Ruminating, Kelly Fineman has her review of Baby Baby Baby! by Marilyn Janovitz.

Karen Edmisten joins in this week with Our Town and Lucinda Matlock.

Sara Lewis Holmes returns to Poetry Friday with a Kafka quote and a Francisco Stork poem at Read Write Believe. (Welocme back, Sara!)

Charles Ghigna is tiptoeing in today with a bird nest poem at Father Goose.

My good friend Grace Lin is joining Poetry Friday this week with Moon Poetry for the Autumn Moon Festival. Check out Grace’s Moon Poetry post at her blog Gracenotes. (Note: Grace’s beautiful new picture book Thanking the Moon: Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival was recently published by Alfred A. Knopf.)

POETRY ROUNDUP--AFTERNOON EDITION

Janet Squires has a post about Pirates: Poems written by David L. Harrison and illustrated by Dan Burr in recognition of Talk Like a Pirate Day.

After a long absence, Tricia returns to Poetry Friday with the poem The Reader by Richard Wilbur.

Tricia has also posted this week’s poetry stretch results—Just Questions—at The Miss Rumphius Effect.


POETRY ROUNDUP--LATE EVENING EDITION

Anne Shirley is in with a poem she shares with her students each year. She says it's a thought-provoking piece written by Helen Buckley.

Head on over to Looking for the Write Words for another original list poem—not written by me—titled Things to Do If You Are a Frog!

Shelley invites us to read about some people who knew how to live without much money at Dust Bowl Poetry.

Announcement! Click here to find out who the 2010 Cybils Poetry Panelists are.

The Poetry Friday Roundup Is Here!!!

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 Villanelles

Tricia 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’s Library.

Julie Larios wrote: “I'm feeling a bit blue about Obama's speech on Tuesday & decided to post the lyrics to a song from WWI called The Green Fields of France, and a link to a You Tube video in which John McDermott sings it. Links to two other songs, too - Pie Jesu from "Requiem", sung by Sarah Brightman, and Bring 'em Home sung by Bruce Springsteen.” Check out Julie’s post—Poetry Friday: Heartache. (Julie I posted I Cannot Speak of War, a poem I found at Poets Against War at Blue Rose Girls today because I was also feeling a bit blue too.)

Jules of 7-Imp is already gearing up poetically for the holiday season with some Christmas lyrics and art from Elisa Kleven at Poetry Late-Thursday-Night: On High.

Jeannine Atkins wrote about Sweethearts of Rhythm written by Marilyn Nelson and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. FYI: The poems are written from the points of view of instruments.

Heidi Mordhorst, a children’s poet I had the great pleasure of meeting at NCTE in Philadelphia, joins in with a foolish limerick and an original poem suitable for the long dark nights that lead up to the Winter Solstice: We Light a Candle.

Karen Edmisten gives us Reluctance, a poem by Robert Frost, this Poetry Friday.

Irene Latham has a Ted Kooser poem called The Skater at Live. Love. Explore!.

Charles Ghigna, aka Father Goose, Shares an original poem with us today: Winter in the Park.

G. R. LeBlanc is in with a quick review and a haiku from the picture book Grass Sandals, The Travels of Basho, over at Reflective Ink.

This week's poem on The Stenhouse Blog is Aliteracy Poem by Steven Layne.



A Light Poetic Lunch Bunch & Another Villanelle

Jet has a poem by Vachel Lindsay for us to munch on midday at The Incredible Thinking Woman.

Sylvia Vardell is in this week with a focus on 2009's top trend in poetry for children: TIME at Poetry for Children.

Tricia was kind enough to provide me with the link to Thanksgiving Away, the villanelle written by Tanita Davis—who’s traveling.


When Evening Falls—Poetry Calls

Sherry’s sharing a Christmas poem today that was written by George Herbert at Semicolon.

Miss Erin contributes an original poem this Poetry Friday.

The Poetry Friday Roundup Is at Wild Rose Reader Today!

I couldn't find out where the Poetry Friday Roundup was--so I thought I'd do it here!

POETRY FRIDAY: MORNING EDITION

At Wild Rose Reader, I have a review of The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination, a wonderful new anthology that connects science and poetry. It was compiled by US Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman and her good friend Linda Winston.

Jama Rattigan is celebrating the joys of peanut butter today in honor of National Peanut Butter Lovers Month. Who else would know there was a month set aside for such a thing??? Get on over to Alphabet Soup and read The Great Peanut Butter Smackdown.

Laura Salas is in with an excerpt from J. Pat Lewis's new book The House and the 15 Words or Less poems inspired by a funny/sad photo.

Liz Garton Scanlon has literature on her mind. Check out her post Bright Books, which includes a poem by Henry Vaughan.

Jules of 7-Imp has One Impossibly Quick—But Fun—Q & A before Breakfast with Children’s Poet Bobbi Katz.

At A Year of Reading, Mary Lee has Sonnet by James Weldon Johnson for those experiencing difficult times. Her post is titled Beyond Surrounding Clouds.

Julie Larios admits to being “moon drunk” lately. She has some photos taken by a friend and an original poem, December 21. Why don’t you steal away to The Drift Record to see what she’s got for us today.

At the Miss Rumphius Effect, Tricia has a poem by Ted Kooser titled Gabardine that reminds her of her father. P. S. Don’t forget to wish Tricia a Happy Third Blog Birthday here.

My poem of the Week at Political Verses is HOT DOG!: A Turley Blawg Verse.

Sara Lewis Holmes has selected a poem by Rick Barot titled Reading Plato to share with us today at Read Write Believe. She says she chose the poem because—among other things—it describes the writing process.

LITERARY LUNCH POETRY BUNCH

Andy says The Write Sisters are checking in with a 1919 look at the 2009 flu pandemic. She’s offering The Flu by J. P. McEvoy for Poetry Friday.

Jone of Check It Out has a poem for us celebrating rain by Zaro Well titled From My Window.

At All About the Books, Janet Squires talks about Dav Pilkey's humorous Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving.

Charles Ghigna, aka Father Goose, has some poetic Inspiration for us this Poetry Friday.

Check out Poetry Friday—Haiku, A “New View” at Random Noodling.

Kurios Kitty takes a look at Where in the Wild?: Camouflaged Creatures Concealed…and Revealed.

POETRY FOR EARLY EVENING

Janet has Valerie Worth’s poem Library for us today at Across the Page.

Don’t forget to travel over to the Bonny Glen for Melissa Wiley’s post— Then Again, Perhaps She'd Be Offended by That "Corwin, Tim'rous" Business.

Author Mitali Perkins is sharing a short video of four poems by Naomi Shihab Nye read by the poet.

Teacher and children’s poet Heidi Mordhorst joins us today with Robert Frost’s In Hardwood Groves at her blog My Juicy Little Universe.

Kelly Fineman says she’s FINALLY in with a review of The Monsterologist by Bobbi Katz and Adam McCauley.

FRIDAY NIGHT POEMS

At Book Crumbs, Priya has an original poem for us titled Tuesday Morning.

Maya Ganesan and Miss Erin have a collaborative poem to share with us called Carving.

Lisa said that she’s having a great weekend in New York City at a poetry workshop at Poets House, a beautiful library on the Hudson River filled with poetry! She’s posted a sweet poem she found there, Human Heart by Gregory Orr.

Author Tabatha A. Yeatts has three poems for us—including Dove Rengger-Thorpe’s The Hatching.

At Blue Rose Girls, I have Toucan Talk: An Original Animal Mask Poem.

Poetry Friday Is Here!!!

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.

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THE BREAKFAST BUNCH

At Wild Rose Reader, I have Here I Am, an original poem I wrote in remembrance of Karla Kuskin, the award-winning children’s poet who passed away in August.

At Blue Rose Girls, I have two poems dedicated to the memory of Lindsey B., of one of my former students. I just learned on Wednesday that Lindsey had passed away at the age of thirty. The poems are Little Elegy by X. J. Kennedy and Child of a Day by Walter Savage Landor.

You’ll find a poem titled Heart on the Unemployment Line by Diane Lockward over at Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup. Jama highly recommends Diane’s book What Feeds Us.

Over at The Miss Rumphius Effect, Tricia has the poem The Weight of What Is Thrown by Joe Wenderoth—a new poet whose work she found on the Internet. Tricia also has this week’s Poetry Stretch Results - Poems of Work.

Diane Mayr gives us Across to Brooklyn, an original poem she wrote after 9/11 at Random Noodling.

Kelly Fineman has a video of actor Matthew MacFadyen performing William Carlos Williams’s poem This Is Just to Say.

Diane of The Write Sisters is sharing Still Here by Langston Hughes.

Curious Kitty gives us a quote by former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.

Nandini says she has a (rather rough ... apologies!) original about an old family pet—The Dog in the Rickshaw.

Sherry thought George Eliot's The Choir Invisible might be appropriate to post today in memory of 9/11.

PaperTigers is in with Sally's post about The Carnival of the Animals: Poems inspired by Saint-Saëns Music, illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura.

Gregory K. of GottaBook says he’s up with an original (for writers... or illustrators (or editors and agents, probably) called This Morning I E-mailed My Manuscript Out.

Mary Lee of A Year of Reading explains that she and Franki have done a series of posts all week that celebrate teaching. Today she has a poem (song lyrics, really) celebrating the "uphill climb" of teaching.

This week, Laura Salas has some poems from School Supplies, an anthology compiled by lee Bennett Hopkins. Laura says she also has 15 Words or Less poems based on a ransom note image—and that everyone can come participate.

Carol is in with Lillian Morrison’s Holes, a poem she's posting in honor of her father.

Tanita S. Davis joins the poetry posters with a David Budbill poem titled Horses At Midnight Without A Moon.

Jules at 7-Imp has a review of Yona Zeldis McDonough's new picture book biography of Alcott, illustrated by Bethanne Andersen, at her Poetry Thursday and Friday post.

G. R. LeBlanc presents Unusual Shoelaces, a humorous poem by X. J. Kennedy.

Sara Lewis Holmes says that she tried April Halprin Wayland's lesson plan over at Teaching Authors today to write a poem about something she couldn't. It's here: Stop.

Author Amok has information about Poetry Out Loud—the national recitation competition for high schoolers. One of the poems on the performance list is Gertrude Stein's "Susie Asado," also up on her blog today.

Andrea of Just One More Book!! Podcast says that Mark and she are contributing an original Farewell poem she wrote titled A Capital Lament.

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THE BRUNCH BUNCH

Karen Edmisten has a poem by Mary Oliver entitled Walking to Oak-Head Pond, and Thinking of the Ponds I Will Visit in the Next Days and Weeks to share with us this Friday.

At Write Time, Linda presents Splitting an Order, a poem that was written by one of her all-time favorite poets—Ted Kooser.

Little Willow joins the poetry crowd with September in Australia by Henry Clarence Kendall.

Shelf Elf selected Damselfly, Trout, Heron, a poem by John Engels on food chains, because she starts teaching Habitats to her class today.

At the Stone Arch Books blog, Library Bound, you’ll find Fairy Songs by Louisa May Alcott.

At In a heron’s Eye, Gavin shares Notes From A Marine Biologist’s Daughter, one of my favorite poems by Anne McCrary Sullivan, a poet who is a Florida Master Naturalist.

Today at TeachingAuthors, April Halprin Wayland commemorates Sept. 11 with a short poem. She also shares two other original poems, and a Writing Workout/Lesson Plan for writing about difficult topics. Check out the post—9-11 Lesson Plan: Stand on Your Head.

At The Stenhouse Blog this week you’ll find a poem by Lynda Hull: Insect Life in Florida.

Lee Wind has posted a poem that a fourteen-year-old poet sent him. Lee says that the young man’s heartbreaking and heart-healing poem stunned him with its honesty and wisdom.

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POST LUNCH LITERARY CROWD

At Here in the Bonny Glen, Melissa Wiley explains how a read-aloud of Winter Holiday took them to Tennyson's Locksley Hall yesterday.

Lorie Ann Grover is dealing with her daughter leaving for college. She shares her poem One Empty Mic at her blog On Point.

And at readertotz there’s a video of Shel Silverstein's Backward Bill in honor of the release of the special edition of The Light in the Attic!

Color Online is sharing a haiku from Sonia Sanchez.

Liz Scanlon has a poem by Marie Howe entitled Hurry at Liz in Ink.

Jone shares Library Lady, an original work poem that she wrote for Tricia’s Poetry Stretch this week at Check It Out.

Erin contributes an original poem called important repetition to the Poetry Friday Roundup.

Father Goose—aka Charles Ghigna—also presents an original poem. Its title is Butterflies of Fall.

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LAST OF THE POETRY POSTERS

Mary is sharing Nancy Willard’s Night Light over at vary the Line.

Anamaria at Bookstogether is joining in with a post about Awful Ogre Running Wild.

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I'm rounding up all the poetry posts today. Please leave the URL of your poetry post and a short description of it in the comments.

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WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING EDITION

• At Political Verses, I have a poem by J. Patrick Lewis about Henry Kissinger entitled Henry K., Man of Peace.
• At Political Verses, I also have an original poem that I posted earlier this week: Bernie Made Off with My Money.
• My Winnie the Pooh post at Wild Rose Reader includes lyrics to Kenny Loggins’ song Return to Pooh Corner, a video with pictures of Winnie the Pooh and his friends and Loggins singing his song, and some children’s poems by A. A. Milne.
• At Blue Rose Girls, I talk a bit about my recent writing of political verses and include an excerpt from and a link to my most recent poetic rant--Winnie Pooh-Bah and the Hundred Acre Wood: A Poem about Rush Limbaugh.
• Kelly Fineman has An Echo from Willowwood by Christina Rossetti at Writing and Ruminating.
• Jacqueline of The Neverending Story selected a poem by Longfellow entitled The Slave's Dream.

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BRIGHT HOURS OF THE MORNING EDITION

• You’ll find a lovely haiku by Zetta Elliott at Color Online and another haiku by the same author from her book A Wish after Midnight at Black-Eyed Susan.
• Gregory K. has an original rhyming poem entitled The Best Concert Ever at GottaBook.
• Julie Larios has some eerie trivia about the plague as well as a poem by Thomas Lux up over at The Drift Record.
• Mary Lee has a sneak peek from J. Patrick Lewis' fall collection, SPOT THE PLOT. (Take my word for it: This collection by Lewis is a treat!)
• At Bookie Woogie they’re' sharing 3 takes on Monster Haiku and the correspondence that came about as a result.
• Cloudscome of A Wrung Sponge is playing with magnetic poetry today. She invites us all to try some and share our creations.
• Tricia joins in today with Barbara Gramby's Ode to American English at The Miss Rumphius Effect.
• Laura Salas has a poem Arnold Adoff wrote for the peace project at my blog. It's called no justice n o p e a c e. Laura also has this week's 15 Words or Less poems, a fun and strange collection based on a giant metal flower sculpture.
• Stella of My World-Mi Mundo wrote a short poem for two voices to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of The Very Hungry Caterpillar!
• At Jumping the Candlestick, Debbie Diesen has an original poem for us entitled For Hunter Park.
• Tanita S. Davis is in with Christina Rossetti, celebrating -- and doubting -- the first day of Spring. (I know how she feels! Here in New England one never knows what the weather has in store for us.)
• There’s always something cooking at Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup. Today she’s also celebrating spring by playing with letters—The Anagrammer by Peter Pereira.
• At Write Time, Linda Kulp has a new poem by Bobbi Katz and a review of this month's Book Links.
• Sara Lewis Holmes of Read Write Believe says ahe’s in with a poetry contest: S is for Spring and Silliness. She invites us to come frolic!
• Over at Poetry for Children, Sylvia Vardell joins in the Poetry Roundup this week with a nod to "World Poetry Day" and a mention of multi-media poetry connections.
• This week's poem on the Stenhouse Blog is The Enkindled Spring by D.H. Lawrence.
  Martha Calderaro saw Robert Pinsky at a local event last night, celebrating poetry in our town and celebrating the Favorite Poem Project. She says an added bonus was hanging with Poetry Friday friend Nandini!
• Liz Garton Scanlon is really into roundup mode with with James Wright and her thoughts on the rodeo.
• At 7-Imp, Jules joins in with Debbie Ouellet's new picture book (with some gorgeous art work from Nicoletta Ceccoli) as well as one of her poems. Check out her Poetry Friday post—Waking Sister Spring.
• Let’s jump into Bruce Black’s pool at Wordswimmer and get into the flow. He’s got an interview with Douglas Florian about his writing process.
• Lorie Ann Grover is in with Patio Tea at on point. And at readertotz she says they have Doctor Foster.
• Kelly Polark has an original poem titled Peace on Earth that she submitted to the Peace project.
• Karen Edmisten has some Barbara Crooker for us today.

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LITERARY LUNCH BUNCH

• Nandini’s pick this week is Antique, a poem by Robert Pinsky. She had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Pinsky read the poem last night at a Favorite Poem event organized by her town. She says it was truly inspiring. You can Antique at Notes from New England.
• Little Willow posted The Round by Stanley Kunitz for our poetry reading pleasure at Bildungsroman today.
• Muriel at The Write Sisters shares Jack Prelutsky's definition of poetry.
• Tiel Aisha Ansari has the lyrics to a blues or gospel song: Cross That Bridge.
• Dante's The Choice for Poetry Friday at Sweetness & Light.
• Anastasia Suen at Picture Book of the Day asked me to spread the word: She’s announcing her new Poetry Month blog, Pencil Talk - School Poems. It's a blog for kids to share their school poems. So, everyone, pass the word on!
• In honor of flu season, Nadine C. Warner presents Maxine Kumin's classic, Sneeze, at Kiddos and Books.
• Becky at Farm School joins in with yet another Phyllis McGinley poem, Address to the Younger Generation, about children's reading preferences and a defense of fiction.
• Let’s all welcome Wanda of A Season to Read. She’s a first-time Poetry Friday Poster! In celebration of Spring's arrival, she’s gives us a few of her original haiku.
• Jone has two poetry posts for us today—one for school and one for poetry club! You’ll find her students’ poems at Check it Out. You’ll find her original Anaphora Poem at Deo Writer.
  

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DINNER TIME POETRY EDITION

• On Shen's Blog, Renee posted a poem from the Tao Te Ching, from Demi's book The Legend of Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching. It's called Silence.
• Miss Erin has an original poem for us entitled I am such a mess.

The Poetry Friday Roundup Is Here!

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 Bunch

At 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.

The Poetry Friday Roundup Is Here!

I'm doing the Poetry Friday Roundup this week. Please leave the URL of your poetry post in the comments. I'll be adding poetry links throughout the day.

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The Wee Hours of the Morning Edition

• At Wild Rose Reader, I have three original Christmas acrostics. I also have three clerihews that I wrote for Tricia’s Monday Poetry Stretch this week.
• At Blue Rose Girls, I have a perfect poem for December written by Russell Libby entitled Applied Geometry.
• Little Willow gives us Falling Asleep, a poem by Siegfried Sassoon.
• This week David Elzey is celebrating the Dutch tradition of giving poems with gifts for Sinterklassavond with his post Sinterklassgedichten.

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The Breakfast Edition

• Michele at Scholar’s Blog has a wintry poem for us—A December Day by Robert Fuller Murray.
• John Mutford of the Book Mine Set has a review of Beatitudes by Herménégilde Chiasson and translated by Jo-Anne Elder. In addition, he uses his style to attempt a short Christmas poem.
• Gotta minute? Then get thee on over to GottaBook. Gregory K. says he’s up with an original for the season: Why I Love the Holidays in My Family.
• Jill Corcoran’s post celebrates children's poets and the series that brings these poets to life, SPEAKING OF POETS.
• Cloudscome brings us an original poem by J. Patrick Lewis celebrating National Chocolate Covered Anything Day: Chocolate Covered Ants.
• Over at A Year of Reading, Mary Lee has a purr-fect poem for feline fanciers in honor of her cat: John Ciardi’s Why Nobody Pets the Lion at the Zoo.
• Julie Larios says she burnt herself out on the Poetry Stretch clerihews and Emily Dickinson this week, so she’s letting John Keats speak for her over at The Drift Record.
• Laura at AuthorAmok has an original poem and a writing exercise, "Poetry Rocks!" She says it was inspired by a third grader's enthusiastic doodle.
• Sara Lewis Holmes is in today with a post about creatively altered old books, a BBC modernization of Much Ado About Nothing, and Shakespeare's unchanging sonnet 116: "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds."
• At Across the Page, Janet is sharing something special today—her 7-year-old's first poem: "Two Little Snowflakes."
• Stacey of Two Writing Teachers says she has a very rough original poem about her desk, which she FINALLY cleaned off this morning! Check out her post Poetry Friday & Photo Fridays Collide!
• And Andrea of Just One More Book!! Podcast is in with a chat about a fabulous rhyming story of sibling dynamics: When I Was King.
• At the Miss Rumphius Effect, Tricia joins the poetry posters today with a poem entitled Sorley's Weather.
• What will you find bubbling in Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup today? Why, "The Twelve Thank-you Notes of Christmas"—that’s what!
• This week Carol reviewed EVERY HUMAN HAS RIGHT. She says it’s a remarkable new book of poetry written by children, illustrated with National Geographic photographs from around the world. She thinks it’s a book every adult who cares about kids needs to know.
• Over at Shelf Elf, there are some cute gift ideas for poets—poetry-inspired pins!
• Lisa Chellman’s contribution this week is "Fearing Paris," by Marsha Truman Cooper.
• Linda Kulp has a tribute to Lee Bennett Hopkins at her blog Write Time.
• Like me—poet Laura Salas is into Acrostics today, too! She also has her 15 Words or Less Poems for December 12, 2008.

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The Brunch Bunch

• Kelly Polark presents an original Christmas cinquain entitled Tree Topper this Poetry Friday.
• Douglas Florian penned an original poem for Poetry Friday. He claims his meter reader was getting on his nerves. Fortunately, that annoyance inspired a well-metered verse entitled The Meter Reader.
• Sally Ito joins in posting on Poetry Friday for the first time at the PaperTigers blog. She’s in with Poetry and the Spiritual: The Work of Tomihiro Hoshino.
• Jennifer Knoblock has some Christopher Marlowe at Ink for Lit.
• The proud MotherReader has an original poem written by her wise seventh-grader titled The Third Level.
• Ruth is in with a poem entitled Schoolsville, which was written by Billy Collins—one of my favorite poets.
• Jules at 7-Imp contributes to Poetry Friday with a poem by Rilke entitled To Music.
• Karen Edmisten shares some Billy Collins, too. She's in with his poem entitled Her.

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The Literary Lunch Crowd

• Tiel Aisha Ansari gives us a seasonal original entitled A Box Full of Stars.
• Shelburns has The Dreidel Song…for Hanukkah at Write for a Reader.
• At Readertotz, Lorie Ann Grover adds to the seasonal chill with The North Wind Doth Blow.
• Lorie Ann also shares an original poem with us entitled Winter Night at On Point.
• Adrienne is into “Howling” this Poetry Friday.
• Anastasia Suen joins us jolly poetry posters with her picture book Red Light, Green Light—which she’s giving away for the 11th Day of Christmas.
• Schelle’s got a cockatootin’ acrostic for us at Brand New Ending.
• Jone is featuring the poems of “Silver Star Students” at Check It Out.
• Tadmack is in with a Meg Kearney poem called Creed.
• Becky at Farm School is in a poetic holiday mood with a few Christmas poems from one of her family’s favorite children's holiday anthologies.

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The Early Evening Edition

• In her Poetry Friday post My Dreidel’s Dancing in Highlights, Brianna Caplan Sayres included links to her poem, "The Dreidel's Dance" and Eileen Spinelli's poem, "The Christmas Story"—both of which appear in this month’s Highlights.
• Nadine C. Warner has her head in the heavens with Douglas Florian's Comets, Stars, the Moon and Mars.
• Kevin Conder thinks his post falls under the Evening Vespers section. He’s in with Charles Bukowski's admonition against being boring. Boring? Perish the thought!!!

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Late Edition

• Liz Garton Scanlon was moon watching and she’s got some Dickinson for us at Liz in Ink.
• Anamaria at Books Together has posted about a family favorite—Father Fox’s Christmas Rhymes.

Poetry Friday Is Here!

I'm doing the roundup this week. Leave your comment and the URL of your Poetry Friday post here. Thanks!

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Early Morning Edition

• At Wild Rose Reader, I have Let America Be America Again, a poem by Langston Hughes, and a short rant.
• At Blue Rose Girls, I have M. S. Merwin’s To the Light of September.
• Jama Rattigan has two poems about marriage for us this week. Did you know that Jama is celebrating her 30th wedding anniversary with a contest? Read all about it here.
• Diane says that The Write Sisters post today looks at state poems, and NH's lack of one!
• At Writing the World for Kids, Laura Salas is in with 15 Words or Less Poems and a column about keeping a poetry diary.
• Lauara Salas is also looking for entrants in a poetry contest. You can win a DVD of Nightmare Before Christmas as well as a children's poetry book (your choice off a list she will provide). Information about that can be found here.
• Christine M. joins us poetry posters with an original poem by her daughter over at Simple and the Ordinary.
• Tricia of the Miss Rumphius Effect is in today with Richard Wilbur's poem Some Opposites.
• Mary Lee of A Year of Reading says that this week, instead of listening to the buzz of politics, she’s been listening to the buzz of the cicadas.
• Stacey of Two Writing Teachers is sharing a rough draft of a "Where I'm From As An Educator" Poem.
• Janet of Writer2b is trotting in with some horse poetry today.
• Jim D. of Haunts of a Children’s Writer says he’s thinking the same way as Mary Lee today and has another post about Cicada (and crickets).
• This week, at Just One More Book, Andrea and Mark chat about the prehistoric, rhyming rumpus Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp.
• Tadmack of Finding Wonderland is trying to grasp mysticism this week with a discovered shape poem from the 14th century.
• Sara Lewis Holmes is thinking about themes of apology and forgiveness, both yesterday, with her book club preview of This is Just to Say, by Joyce Sidman, and today, with Jane Kenyon's poem, Happiness.
• Jules of 7-Imp joins us Poetry Friday posters in with Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford.

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Late Morning Edition

• MsMac of Check it Out came a across a Wendell Berry poem that was used in a retreat program she attended for teachers that she’d like to share with us.
• Linda Kulp of Write Time has a book review of Almost Forever, a novel in verse, at her blog.
• Tiel Aisha Ansari has a short poem about her last blood donation: Red Cross Rubaiy.
• Debbie Diesen of Jumping the Candlestick says she’s been using Poetry Friday as a prompt for herself to stretch with words. Her attempt for this week is entitled Vase of Daisies.
• Barbara H. of Stray Thoughts is sharing a poem special to her, John Greenleaf Whittier's Dear Lord and Father of Mankind.
• Laurel Snyder has a post on politics, poetry, blogging…and a poem by Milosz entitled Song on the End of the World at Bewilderblog.
• Yat-Yee Chong has posted a short poem by Robert Frost entitled Nothing Gold Can Stay at her blog.
• Em’s got her second ever Poetry Friday post up and it's in honor of school starting. You can read it at her blog Em’s Bookshelf.
• Becky of Becky’s Book R eviews joins the Poetry Friday crowd with a review of Hip Hop Speaks to Children edited by Nikki Giovanni. She’s sharing the poem Books by Eloise Greenfield.
• Kelly Fineman of Writing and Ruminating is in with A Coat by William Butler Yeats.

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Afternoon Edition

• John Mutford of the Book Mine Set gets into the poetry thing with a review of Beneath the Naked Sun, a book of poetry by Connie Fife.
• MotherReader says, “Hey! I've got a poem from and thoughts about Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! You'll find her Poetry Friday post here.
• Cuileann has a Czeslaw Milosz poem, Dedication, here at her blog, The Holly and the Ivy.
• Unlike me, Kelly H. of Big A, little a, has decided not to post a political statement today. She felt the need to take a break and instead posted one of her favorite songs from the Russian cartoon Cheburashka. She says it’s known here as The Birthday Song.

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Evening Edition

• Liz Scanlon says she just saw Mamma Mia so her post is ABBA today. She couldn’t help it! Check her poetry post out at Liz in Ink.
• Laura Shovan of Author Amok is blogging about the Dodge Poetry Festival with Galway Kinnell's poem The Sow Piglet's Escape.
• Alotalot has a recommendation for a children’s poetry book by Mary O’Neill today.
• Aline Pereira of PaperTigers joins in on the Poetry Friday fun with The Poet Pencil.

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The Really Late Edition

• Jennie is in with a review of the verse novel Ringside, 1925.
• At Charlotte’s Library, Charlotte has some poems from Fir-Flower Tablets (1921), a book of Chinese poetry translated by Florence Ayscough and made into English poems by Amy Lowell.
• Little Willow takes us on The Wild Ride at Slayground.
• Anamaria is in with The Farmer's Bride.
• Karen E. is a tad late this week--but still managed to make the roundup with her Poetry Friday post, which you’ll find here.
• At Carol’s Corner you’ll find a review of Douglas Florian’s AUTUMNBLINGS, a loverly, new-to-her book of fall poetry.
• Suzanne of Adventures in Daily Living says, and I quote her words: “I'm sharing a poem about cats at the shore, because I am at the shore, and we love cats.”
• Suzanne is also submitting on behalf of her niece and her new blog.
  

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Saturday Morning Edition

• Julie Larios says: “I have two pig poems (Walter de la Mare and Noel Coward) and a few comments about what I think they're doing right, over at The Drift Record this week.”
• Sylvia Vardell of Poetry for Children posted about Janet Wong's "republishing" her wonderful book, A SUITCASE OF SEAWEED.

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Just One More Poetry Post

• Michele of Scholar’s blog wrote in her comment: “I don't have a Poetry Friday so much as a Shakespeare Saturday and although there's very little Shakespeare in it, I'm hoping it's still eligible...” I would have to apply in the affirmative. The words of Shakespeare are always welcome here at Wild Rose Reader.