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Saturday, April 9, 2011

First Week of National Poetry Month 2011 Roundup

There’s a lot of poetry celebrating going on in the kidlitosphere during the month of April. It’s not easy trying to keep up with all the poetry goodness. That’s why I’m doing a roundup of the first week of Poetry Month posts at Wild Rose Reader and at some of my favorite blogs.

Wild Rose Reader

PoetryTagTime: A Conversation with Janet Wong & Sylvia Vardell

Win a Children's Poetry Book from Wild Rose Reader!!!

MINNOW MUSIC: An Original Mask Poem

A Passel of Space Poems

The Global Poem for Change

GOING BUGGY!: Original Insect Poems

The Miss Rumphius Effect: Poetry in the Classroom

A Red Wheelbarrow, LOVE THAT DOG, and Williams

Of Castles and Commoners

Math and Poetry

Crazy for Insects

The Trip Around the Sun

Down on the Farm

Life in the Sea

GottaBook: 30 Poets/30 Days

Douglas Florian - April is the Coolest Month

Janet Wong - Eyes-to-Eyes

Marilyn Singer - A Stick Is an Excellent Thing

Joseph Bruchac - Siguan

April Halprin Wayland - Dear Whoever Composes the Sky

Graham Denton - I Am Huffing, I Am Puffing

George Ella Lyon - No Need For Metaphor

A Wrung Sponge: Haibun-a-Day

Paper Crane Haibun #1

Liz in Ink: Haiku-a-Day

Poetry Friday -- Haiku 1

Haiku 2

Haiku 3

Haiku 4

Haiku 5

Haiku 6

Haiku 7

The Poem Farm: Poetic Techniques & Idea-Finding Strategies

Poems about Poems

Imagery Poems & Edible Books

Poems About Animals We Know

Line Breaks and White Spaces in Poems

Everyday Life as Inspiration

Free Verse—Poems Do Not Need to Rhyme

Poems Come from Wonders & Questions

A Year of Reading: A Poem-a-Day

Poetry Friday -- NaPoMo and JPL

Poem #2—Out Like a Lion

Poem #3—Metaphor Poem (plus a Simile Book Review)

Poem #4—Words With Friends

Poem #5--Fishing

Poem #6—Favorite Book

Poem #7—Words

Check It Out: 30 Days = 30 Students

Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup: Poetry Potluck Series

April 2011 Poetry Month Potluck: Starters and a Giveaway!

Waffle-laden Poet Coming in for a Landing: April Halprin Wayland

Noodling Around with Carol Weis

Welcoming Spring with Joann Early Macken!

Friday, April 8, 2011

And the Winner of POETREES Is...

I am happy to announce that Bridget Wilson is the winner of Douglas Florian’s book POETREES.

Congratulations, Bridget!!! Please email me your address so I can send this fabulous poetry collection off to you.

The Wild Rose Reader poetry prize for the second week of NaPoMo will be Twosomes: Love Poems from the Animal Kingdom. To have your name entered into the drawing for Twosomes—all you have to do is leave a comment at any of my Wild Rose Reader posts dated April 8-14. (NOTE: If you leave comments at two posts, your name will be entered twice…and so on.)

POETRY BOOK GIVEAWAY SCHEDULE

Second Week of NaPoMo: April 8—14 (Winner announced on April 15th.)

Third Week of NaPoMo: April 15—21 (Winner announced on April 22nd.)

Fourth Week of NaPoMo: April 22—28 (Winner announced on April 29th.)

Final Days of NaPoMo: April 29—30 (Winner announced on May 1st.)

TWOSOMES: Love Poems from the Animal Kingdom...and Some Original Cuddly Creature Couplets

Twosomes: Love Poems from the Animal Kingdom

Written by Marilyn Singer

Pictures by Lee Wildish

Knopf, 2011

This is a slim volume of fifteen “cuddly creature couplets” about pairs of animals (porcupines, chameleons, sharks, elephants, cats, dogs) who are in love. It’s a light-hearted collection that kids and adults alike can appreciate. Wildish’s humorous cartoonlike illustrations add to the fun of Singer’s animal-sweetheart verses—which contain lots of wordplay and puns. One bat wants to “hang around” with another bat. Two horses enjoy a “stable relationship.” A male dolphin tells his female paramour that she’s the “porpoise” of his life.

Click here to look inside this book.I really enjoyed this little book. It inspired me to write some of my own “twosomes.”

Bull & Cow

YOU’RE my gal. There ain’t no uddah.

I love you more than biscuits and buddah.

Yo mine,

Bovine.

Skunks

Let me be your special gent.

I love you. You were heaven scent.

Ultrasauruses

You’re well-preserved, you ancient fossil!

My love for you is mega-colossal.

Narcissistic Peacock

I can see my reflection so I’m never lonely.

I WANT to be my one and only.

Beetles

She’s the true love that I chose.

I met her on a red, red rose.

Mayflies

Be mine. Let’s mate…

Before it’s too late.

I invite readers to write their own “twosomes” and leave them in the comments. I’ll post them next week.

Twosomes is the book prize I'll be giving away for the second week of National Poetry Month.

NOTE: I’ll announce the winner of Douglas Florian’s poetry collection POETREES later today.

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Over at Political Verses, I have an original poem by J. Patrick Lewis titled TLC by TSA at LAX.

At Blue Rose Girls, I have three original clerihews.

The Poetry Friday Roundup is at Madigan Reads.