Poetry Friday Round Up

So here it goes —

The Brave who share their own words (or their students’)

Elaine Magliaro at Wild Rose Reader

John Mutford at The Book Mine Set inspired by bpNichol.

MsMac at Check It Out: Books & Life in a School Library shares her students’ version of “Where Poetry Hides,” inspired by Georgia Heard’s Awakening the Heart.

Riddleburger at Sam Riddleburger — “the latest batch of gross KID (and librarian) poetry“

Susan T. at Chicken Spaghetti — First Graders’ Food Related Conversations

Kelly Fineman

Gregory K at GottaBook

Mother Reader — “Spam Poem”

Autumn

Literacy Educator at Mentor Texts, Read Alouds, & More — “Clouds” (BTW — This is one of my favorite blogs!)

Elaine Magliaro at Wild Rose Reader — Robert Frost

Jama Rattigan at Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup — Some “Vintage Frost”

Karen Edmisten at Karen Edmisten: The Blog With the Shockingly Clever Title — “Spring & Fall to a Young Child”

Stacey here at TWT — “The Twelve Months”

RM1(SS) (RET) at The Old Coot — “When the Frost is On the Punkin”

Liz B at A Chair, A Fireplace, & A Tea Cozy — Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich

Sherry at Semicolon — apple poems

Becky at Farm School — Columbus Day poems

Christine M. at The Simple & The Ordinary — wind

School

Mary Lee at A Year of Reading — “Not Waving But Drowning”

Sarah at Sarah Says — “David’s Poem”

Try It Too

Sara Lewis Holmes at Read Write Believe — A Poem in Photographs

Laura Salas at laurasalas: Writing the World for Kids — 15 Words or Less

Kim at Hiraeth — Extremity ( a poem in 15 Words or Less)

Working on a Dream? Check out Hip Writer Mama’s post — “For the Young Who Want To”

Other Stuff

Tricia at Miss Rumphius Effect — Beauty

Rosepixie at Pixie Palace — A Mermiaid from Russia

Elaine Magliaro at Blue Rose Girls — “Colors Passing Through Us”

“Colors Passing Through Us” — Elaine Magliaro at Blue Rose Girls & Eisha at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Laura Salas — Notes from a conference with Linda Sue Parks about her new collection of the Korean poetry form of Sijo.

Tad Mack at Finding Wonderland — “The Pessimist”

Little Willow at Bildungsroman — “Miss Congeniality”

Charlotte at Charlotte’s Library — “The Wild Carrot Field”

Crispus Attuks at Dominant Reality — “The Peace Poem” by John Denver

Tiel Aisha Ansari at Knocking from the Inside — “Bend in the River”

Liz Garton Scanlon at Liz in Ink — William Stafford

AmoXcalli — “Borderlands”

Cuentecitos — “Come Out With Me” by AA Milne & “If” by Kipling

Melissa Wiley at Here in Bonny Glen — Seamus Heaney

Cloudscome at A Wrung Sponge — Reviewing Wing Nuts: Screwy Haiku

And I’m in too at Inspiring Readers & Writers with “Hold Fast Your Dream” by Louise Driscoll (+ a photo of my little dream come true).