Poetry Friday Kickoff for National Poetry Month 2009

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Poetry Friday Kickoff for National Poetry Month 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009 @ 1:11 AM | 58 Comments

Poetry Friday

Happy Poetry Friday, everyone, and Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks to everyone who has participated. There’s a lot of great stuff here, so be sure to poke around a bit.

Suzanne from Adventures in Daily Living created a button for this week’s round-up. Thanks, Suzanne!

Poetry Month Feature Posts

GottaBook has its 30 Poets/30 Days project going, which features one previously unpublished poem per day throughout April. Today’s post features Charles Ghinga’s poem cycle, “A Poem Is…” The other entries so far have been “A Little Poem for Poetry Month” by Jack Prelutsky (4/1) and “Midnight Stray” by Rebecca Kai Dotlich (4/2).
Liz in Ink is posting a haiku per day throughout the month. Today’s is Haiku 3. Be sure to catch up with Haiku 1 and Haiku 2 if you missed them.
The Miss Rumphius Effect has its Poetry Makers series, which features one or more poet interviews per day during April. Today’s interviews are with Avis Harley and Ann Whitford Paul. The previous interviews have been with Kenn Nesbitt (4/1) and Rebecca Kai Dotlich (4/2).
Pencil Talk – School Poems is posting a student poem per day this month. Today’s poem is “School” by 4th grader Ryane. Previous poems posted were Anastasia Suen’s own “Pencil Talk” (4/1) and “Cinquain Poem” by 4th grader Jack (4/2).
Poetry for Children is reviewing a book of poetry each day throughout the month. Today’s review is of Steady Hands: Poems About Work by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer. Previously reviewed titles were Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems by Georgia Heard (4/1) and A Curious Collection of Cats by Betsy Franco (4/2).
Read Write Believe is posting a quotation about poetry each day during April. Today’s quote is by Edward Hirsch. Previous posts have featured Gaston Bachelard (4/1) and C. S. Lewis (4/2).
Writing and Ruminating is posting at least one favorite poem per day in April. Today’s poem is “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats. Previous poems this month were “The Ovenbird” by Robert Frost (4/1) and “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman (4/2).
a wrung sponge is also featuring a haiku per day throughout the month. Today’s installment is Daffodil Haiku. Catch up by reading the April 1st and April 2nd haiku, too.

Audio Recordings

Just One More Book discusses I Am Small by Sheree Fitch.
Susan Writes has a reading of “No Room,” one of the poems in her novel, Hugging the Rock.

National Poetry Month

NaPoWriMo Participants

allegro has “Pulling,” written for NaPoWriMo.
Black-Eyed Susan’s has a poem written as part of NaPoWriMo, and inspired by a Poetry Asides prompt about outsiders. It’s called “Dichotomy of Race and Language: A Girl from The Hood.”
Nickers and Ink has graduation poetry, written as part of NaPoWriMo.

Original Poems

Blue Rose Girls has a post about Magnetic Poetry that includes four poems composed by Mary Lee of A Year of Reading, Pam Coughlan of MotherReader, and Meghan McCarthy and Elaine Magliaro of Blue Rose Girls.
Fomagrams has twitku—twitter haiku from this past week.
Karen Edmisten has a poem that points to other sites with poetry month features.
Knocking from Inside has a triolet called “White Blossoms.”
Laura Salas has this week’s 15 words or less poems up.
The Mane Point has “Great Green Grub.”
Miss Erin has an original poem called “Standing.”
MotherReader has an original poem called “Packing”
My World-Mi Mundo has an original poem called “Words,” written in response to an incident one of her students went though.
On Point has two poems about gulls—“Suspended” and “Caught.”
Write Time has a poem for the Peace Project.

Others’ Poems, Spring-themed

Biblio File has “Loveliest of Trees” by A. E. Housman
Carol’s Corner has a spring poem by Kristine O’Connell George.
PaperTigers has “Where is Spring?” by Yang-Huan.
Shelf Elf has “What the Horses See at Night” by Robin Robertson.
The Stenhouse Blog has “Time and the Garden” by Yvor Winters.
Stray Thoughts has “Spring” by Robert Frost and “Waiting for Spring” by John Newton.
Write Sisters has spring poems—“An altered look about the hills” by Emily Dickinson and “Answer to a Child’s Question” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Others’ Poems, General

Across the Page has “Portrait” by E. B. White
Adventures in Daily Living has a meaningful hymn by Annie Johnson Flint.
Bildungsroman has “The Dancers” by Michael Field.
Farm School has three poems the kids recited this week: “Mother Doesn’t Want a Dog” by Judith Viorst, “A Mosquito in the Cabin” by Myra Stilborn, and “Jim, Who Ran Away from His Nurse and Was Eaten by a Lion” by Hilaire Belloc.
I’m Here. I’m Queer. What the Hell do I read? has “My true love hath my heart, and I have his” by Sir Philip Sidney.
In Need of Chocolate has “Bed in Summer” by Robert Louis Stevenson and a link to a site with other classic poems for children.
The Incredible Thinking Woman has “Pangur Ban” (which means white cat) written by an unknown Irish monk.
Into the Wardrobe has “The Emperor’s New Sonnet” by Jose Garcia Villa.
Kiddos and Books has “Who Has Seen the Wind” by Christina Rossetti, and also an original update.
The Miss Rumphius Effect has “Ode on the Whole Duty of Parents” by Frances Cornford.
Notes from New England has “An Indian Love Song” by Sarojini Naidu.
Political Verses has “Poem at the End of the Twentieth Century” by J. Patrick Lewis.
The Reading Zone has “Snow, Aldo” by Kate DiCamillo.
Seven Impossible Things before Breakfast has “The Poems I Like Best” by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer and illustrations by Chris Raschka, both from A Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, Sing, and Shout.
There is no such thing as a God-forsaken town has “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot.
Yat-Yee Chong has “The Abnormal Is Not Courage” by Jack Gilbert, as a reminder of normal excellence.
A Year of Reading has “I’m Building a Rocket” by Kenn Nesbitt, dedicated to a couple of students who are experimenting with AlkaSeltzer rockets.

Reviews, Responses, and Interviews

Bookie Woogie has family responses to Jazzmatazz! by Stephanie Calmenson and Bruce Degen.
A Chair, a Fireplace, & a Tea Cozy discusses Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits.
Hope Is the Word spotlights Harvest Home and Least Things by Jane Yolen.
jama rattigan’s alphabet soup has a review of Stampede! Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School by Laura Purdie Salas.
Kristy Dempsey discusses “A Dog’s Life” by Daniel Groves with a high school friend.
Laura Salas has “Welder” from Steady Hands: Poems About Work by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer, as well as an interview with the author. She also had Douglas Florian earlier this week to kick off Poetry Month.
A Patchwork of Books discusses The Swamps of Sleethe by Jack Prelutsky.

Those that Resist Categorization

Kurious Kitty’s Kurio Kabinet has poetry in unexpected places.
Picture Book of the Day has My Hippo Has the Hiccups And Other Poems I Totally Made Up by Kenn Nesbitt, and a word-choice mini lesson.
Sally Murphy’s Writing for Children Blog has five exercises for writing children’s poetry.
Shutta Crum has 30 Poems & 30 Days (& 30 Forms).
Tabatha A. Yeats discusses various National Poetry Month special activities.
Wild Rose Reader has a post about mask poems that includes originals by Elaine Magliaro, student poems, and book recommendations.
a wrung sponge has National Poetry Month links to various blog happenings.