At
Rasco from RIF, Carol Rasco shares a review of A PRIMER ON THE FLAG, a picture book poem by Marvin Bell and illustrated by Chris Raschka.
Susan Taylor Brown offers an original poem-a-day for for the whole month once more. And while last year's poems centered on her relationship with the father she never knew, this year's poem-inspiration will grow from Susan's artistic play and learning all through March.
Gregory Pincus is back with another month of 30 Poems in 30 Days over at
GottaBook. This month begins with Douglas Florian's "April is the Coolest Month."
Tabatha Yeats celebrates the gifts of parenting with her original poem, "Eye Sight, Mother and Child" at
The Opposite of Indifference.
Over at
A Year of Reading, Mary Lee Hahn celebrates not only their author visitor, J. Patrick Lewis, but also a whole school-full of poets with her first NaPoWriMo poem. You can also learn about her funmysterious and soon-to-be-here
PoetQRy QResponse game.
Laura will bring us Maryland poets and school-friendly writing prompts all month over at
Author Amok. Today's poem is "X-Men" by Dennis Kirchbaum along with his upper grade prompt about superheroes and memory.
A Teaching Life with Tara celebrates two poems by New Jersey poet Maria Mazzioti Gillan.
Starting today at
The Small Nouns, Ben will share a new-to-him poem each day of April. The month begins with, "Sutra" by Marilyn Krysl.
Heidi Mordhorst begins a game of MiniPoetryTag and wishes Daisy a "Happy Birthday" over at
My Juicy Little Universe.
At
Writing the World for Kids, Laura Purdie Salas shares "Jumping for Joy," a haiku from her book
Fuzzy-Fast Blur: Poems about Pets. Laura's invitation to write a
15 Words or Less poem sparks us with a photograph of raindrops.
Tanita Davis offers us "Te Deum" by Charles Reznikoff over at
[fiction, instead of lies.]
Join a month-long poetry party over at
Live. Love. Explore! where Irene Latham will share "poetry quotes, trivia, craft tips, publishing resources, and free books!" Today she tempts us with a book recommendation.
Linda Kulp welcomes spring and poetry at
Write Time, beginning today with with Linda Lee's poem, "Foal."
Shannon has gathered her previous poetry reviews and other poem-related posts for a poetry celebration at
Hope is the Word.
Jama Rattigan will continue to feed us this month at
Jama Rattigan's Alphabet Soup. Today you can nibble on the Potluck Poets menu, John Mole's "The Banquet," and news about a poetry book giveaway.
Random Noodling, with Diane Mayr, brings us an original haibun titled "Rally for New Hampshire."
Kurious Kitty speaks to April Fool's Day with a bit of Shakespeare, and Ted Kooser is up at
Kurious K's Kwotes.
At
Wild Rose Reader, Elaine talks with Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong about today's newly launched PoetryTagTime, an e-book anthology of children's poets tagging each other with poems. At
Blue Rose Girls, Elaine shares an original acrostic for April. Once again, Elaine has generously herded up and now offers her list of
National Poetry Month Resources for 2011, and you can learn about her
NaPoMo poetry book giveaways here.
The Florian Cafe shares "To Anna Blume," a poem by Kurt Schwitters Merz on the occasion of his new show at Princeton.
"Thanks," by W.S. Merwin, ushers in April over at
Pentimento.
Ruth brings us the hopeful words of Emily Dickinson's "April" at
There's No Such Thing as a God-forsaken Town.
Two haiku written by seventeenth-century Japanese woman poets grace
Robin Hood Black's blog today.
Jennie reviews Helen Frost's verse novel,
The Braid, today at
Biblio File.
At
Fomagrams, David Elzey is in with his annual launch of twitku (daily tweeted poems) and what he calls Burma Shave poems. You can follow these on Twitter at @delzey.
At
Views from a Window Seat, Jeannine Atkins shares her thoughts about and a peek into Eavan Boland's memoir
Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time.
Across the Page brings us Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Land of Counterpane" in honor of a sick child at home.
For the fourth year running, Andromeda Jazmon will post an original haiku and photo each day at
a wrung sponge. This year, she is extending the challenge into a daily haibun. As a part of today's haibun, Andromeda shares a inspiring student project called "Paper Cranes for Japan."
Books, Dogs, and Frogs shares "Love These Dogs," an original dog-celebration poem inspired by Sharon Creech's LOVE THAT DOG. May this first-original-poem-since-grade-school be the first of many!
At
Book Aunt, Kate Coombs is in with an original poem about listening to rain as well as the Kidlitosphere poetry links collected by Irene Latham for National Poetry Month.
Doraine Bennett offers Lucy Maud Montgomery's "An April Night" at
Dori Reads.
Blythe Woolston thanks her poet friends for helping her "recover her poetic license" with a poem that has "a haikuish bent."
At
Liz in Ink, Liz Scanlon will for the third time share one haiku each day for the month of April. This year, though, she will post haibun. Today's haibun is about a hiding cat...and so much more.
Janet Squires shares
Wings on the Wind: Bird Poems, collected and illustrated by Kate Kiesler, over at
All About the Books.
To kick off National Poetry Month 2011,
The Write Sisters have a poem about poems by Archibald MacLeish.
Over at
The Blog with the Shockingly Clever Title, Karen Edmisten has posted links to George Meredith's "The Lark Ascending" and a Ralph Vaughan Williams song which it inspired. Karen recommends listening and reading at the same time.
Martha shares an original poem about one tough winter over at
Martha Calderaro.
Over at
The Drift Record, Julie Larios offers a feeling of longing with "White Cat," a poem by Romanette, a Seattle second grade.
Mozi Esme is joining in with the "Kids' Poetry Challenge" introduced by Brimful Curiosities. And the first drawing is up - a response to Richard LeGallienne's "I Meant to do My Work Today."
At
Carol's Corner, Carol shares a found poem from this month's issue of
Oprah, which focuses on poetry. Her poem, "Poetry," was found in a piece by Mark Nepo.
As a part of her research for her next novel (a middle grade historical fiction set in 1548 Flanders),
Nicole Marie Schreiber offers a poem she found called "Lacemaker's Prayer."
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