POETRY FRIDAY ROUNDUP

THE EARLY EDITION

First in the roundup is Michele at Scholar’s Blog. She's b-a-a-a-ck with Shakespeare…again! This week it’s Sonnet 130.

And Kelly at Big A, little a is in with Baudelaire…again! This time she’s bringing a little “soleil” into our literary lives.

Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect gives us a gray weather day with her “A Foggy, Froggy Poetry Friday” entry.

Betsy at A Fuse #8 production has another gem penned by the Poetry Parent Extrodinaire of the Kidlitosphere—her mother Susan Ramsey.

Gregory K. at GottaBook has GottaQuestion: Guess How Much I Love You? Well…actually…he has another oddaptation of a children’s book. Guess which book he oddapted???

Nancy at Journey Woman has a poem by Robert Creeley…and a “silly words” contest for all you folks with lexical leanings.

The Old Coot was inspired to write some submarine haiku this week. It’s sub-a-dub-dub—six poems in a tub!

Check out Cloudscome’s “March 22 Haiku” at A Wrung Sponge. You won’t want to miss this “poem & picture” post. She's also posted her favorite Gerard Manley Hopkins poem for Spring.

At A Year of Reading, Franki is into birdies and black holes with her reviews of two new children’s poetry books.

Mitali’s left brain is out on the Fire Escape today. It decided to give us poetry posters some information about fair use, public domain, and copyright issues in “Poetry Friday for Dummies.” That’s so we won’t be poetry dummies no more!!!

Little Willow gives us “To a Child Dancing in the Wind” by D. B. Yeats.

Kelly Fineman gets a little “Leary” this week with “The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.”

The Wordy Girls have a poem by Rita Dove…and their usual Poetry Friday “15 Words or Less” poems. You’re all invited to drop by and add a poem.

Anne at Book Buds is on the ball with a review of a rewrite of CASEY AT THE BAT. Just in time for spring training, she tells us all about CASEY BACK AT BAT.

Emily at Whimsy Books is definitely in a “springy mood” this Friday—and she’s got poems by two great children’s poets: Aileen Fisher and Karla Kuskin.

At Blue Rose Girls, I’ve got a review of THIS IS JUST TO SAY, the new book by Joyce Sidman, winner of the 2006 Cybils Award for Poetry.


THE MIDDAY EDITION

Jane at Check It Out is welcoming the brand new season with the poem “What I Love About Spring.”

Hipwritermama joins her Poetry Friday pals with a little Longfellow…or was that a long Littlefellow?

Susan Taylor Brown is back…and with “Sick Fish.” Honestly, it’s better than it sounds.

Susan at Chicken Spaghetti has a short, witching post from Macbeth…so get there on the double, double!

Barbara at Cats and Jammers Studio is joining us for Poetry Friday for the first time—thanks to the encouragement of the Chicken Spaghetti Chicklitterarian. Barb's taking the time machine back to her high schools days with her post about E. E. Cummings.

Liz in Ink has some “fevered up haiku” for us today.

Snow has a review of TECHNICALLY, IT’S NOT MY FAULT: CONCRETE POEMS by John Grandits.

Miss Erin has “The Frog,” a poem by Hilaire Belloc.


THE EVENING EDITION

At Lectitans, there’s an excerpt from T. S. Eliot’s “The Theatre Cat” and a link to the full text of the poem.

Liz B. has a review of THE SECRET OF ME, a book in verse.

Don’t forget to check out Poetry for Children, a blog written by Sylvia Vardell. Sylvia served as co-chair of the selection committee of the 2006 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.


SATURDAY MORNING ADDITION

Katie has weather poems by Walter de la Mare and Robert Louis Stevenson at Pixie Palace.

I'll be happy to add more links on Saturday--so leave me a comment if you have a Poetry Friday post you would like to have included in the roundup.