I can’t resist. I’m back to post about poetry and only about poetry from now until Resurrection Sunday. After that, it’ll be back to poetry plus whatever else I post here: mostly book reviews and random thoughts.
Today is the first day of April and the first day of Poetry Month.
Why have a month devoted to poetry?
Why not?
It sounds like fun to me.
And to these other bloggers:
Farm School’s National Poetry Month 2009: Essential Pleasures
Mental Multivitamin: Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
Dominion Family: It’s the Most Wonderful TIme of the Year
Mindy Withrow features a Month of Poets.
PisecoMom celebrates Poetry Month with a basketful of books.
Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness is celebrating the poetry of Billy Collins each Wednesday in April.
Gregory K. at GottaBook gives us Thirty Poets/Thirty Days. Every day in April he’s posting a previously unpublished poem by a different poet. Today, April 1, he starts out with a poem by Jack Prelutsky: A Little Poem for Poetry Month.
The Indextrious Reader: A Month of Poetic Posts.
Savvy Verse and Wit is participating in the Poem a Day Challenge.
Dana of hiddenart is also posting a poem per day in April.
Sylvia Vardell of Poetry for Children is posting “a poetry-book-review-a-day on new 2009 poetry books for kids, with sample poems, activities for kids, and poet interview tidbits.”
Wild Rose Reader is celebrating with book giveaways and spring acrostic poems and who know waht else.
Anastasia Suen invites all “K-12 students to write their own school poems and send them to me so I can post them on this blog.”
At a Hen’s Pace: Spelling Woes.
More later . . . I have to go drive the taxi. If you’ve posted about Poetry Month, leave a comment and I’ll link to you later.
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PisecoMom
4/1/2009 at 3:44 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I posted my book basket for the week here: http://piseco.homeschooljournal.net/2009/03/29/book-basket-sounds-series-for-poetry-month/ – I hope to be posting often, if not daily, about our adventures in poetry this month.
Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness)
4/1/2009 at 5:10 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m excited for National Poetry Month as well! I decided to post a poem by my favorite poet, Billy Collins, every Wednesday in April. I posted the first one today: http://sophisticateddorkiness.com/2009/04/01/celebrating-national-poetry-month/
Dana
4/1/2009 at 6:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Aiming to post one poem a day during April, I find this a fun and challenging way to blog.
Melanie
4/1/2009 at 6:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I’m going to be posting poetry daily; it’s getting to be a habit in April!
Serena (Savvy Verse & Wit)
4/1/2009 at 6:37 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I will be posting about poetry all month other than some already scheduled tour dates. Here is my first post about National Poetry Month:
http://savvyverseandwit.blogspot.com/2009/04/poem-day-challenge-question.html
Serena (Savvy Verse & Wit)
4/1/2009 at 7:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
here are the other two posts from today:
http://savvyverseandwit.blogspot.com/2009/04/poem-1-pad-challenge-2009.html
http://savvyverseandwit.blogspot.com/2009/04/calling-all-poetry-book-reviewers.html
Shauna
4/1/2009 at 7:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
You may also want to take a look at this daily poetry challenge at Poetic Asides:
http://blog.writersdigest.com/poeticasides/April+PAD+Challenge+2009+Rules++Blahblahblah.aspx
At A Hen's Pace
4/2/2009 at 12:05 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I posted a poem in honor of the month…
Jeanne
Amy
4/2/2009 at 9:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I just wanted to say I’m glad you’re back. I missed you! : )
Amy @ Hope Is the Word
4/3/2009 at 8:00 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I posted about Jane Yolen—>http://hopeistheword.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/author-spotlightjane-yolen/
Becky
4/3/2009 at 11:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thanks so much for the mention, Sherry! Happy National Poetry Month to you and your family!
Catez
4/5/2009 at 3:57 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Hi Sheri. I’m back and thrilled to see you are doing poetry until Resurrection Sunday. I like Denise Levertov a lot myself.
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