Nothing fancy. I'm just going to throw a blanket down under the tree. Come and join me! I bought some snickerdoodles at the farmer's market after this morning's hike that I'll share. Here's some poetry to savor while we sit in the shade and chat:
Sylvia at Poetry For Children
Lori Ann Grover at On Point
Iphigene at Gathering Books
The Dodge Blog
Heidi at My Juicy Little Universe
Maria at Teaching in the 21st Century
Through the Looking Glass
The Write Sisters
Readertotz
Katie Ford Hall at Uneasy Pink
Carol at Carol's Corner
Diane at Random Noodling
Julie at The Drift Record
Jason at JMK
Kerry at Picture Books and Pirouettes
Ben at The Small Nouns
Joy at Poetry for Kids Joy
Debbie at A Journey in Learning
Jone at Check it Out
Kurious Kitty's Kurio Kabinet
David L. Harrison
The Slow-Dripped Life
Dori at Dori Reads
Laura at Author Amok
Amy at The Poem Farm
Ruth at No Such Thing as a God-Forsaken Town
Charles at Bald Ego and The Father Goose Blog
Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference
Laura at Writing the World for Kids and 15 Words or Less
Irene at Live Your Poem
Linda at Teacher Dance
Robyn at Read, Write, Howl
Jama at Jama Rattigan's Alphabet Soup
April at Teaching Authors
Little Willow at Bildungsroman
Liz at Growing Wild
Douglas at Florian Cafe
Oh, yeah. My post is here.
Here's a Poetry Friday poem that came to me from the parent of a child I taught more than 18 years ago (don't you LOVE the connections that LAST?!?!) Powerful.
Here's the video response. Equally powerful:
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Hi Mary Lee! I'm here...with a poem, the anthology, and a giveaway! I looove snickerdoodles! http://www.poemfarm.amylv.com/2012/08/dear-students-new-book.html
ReplyDeleteGotcha! Thanks!!
DeleteDon't forget Kurious Kitty who today has an awesome post that starts with "Thunderboom!" by Charlotte Pomerantz and ends up with the inimitable Queen leading what never fails to be a sing-along--"Bohemian Rhapsody."
ReplyDeleteGot Kurious Kitty! Thanks!!
DeleteI also wanted to mention that I've purchased my tickets for the Dodge Poetry Festival. Any other P.F.ers planning on attending?
ReplyDeleteHere's my post for today. http://thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com/2012/08/poetry-friday-ancient-gesture.html Hope I'm not too late for a snickerdoodle!
ReplyDeletePlenty of snickerdoodles left! Thanks!
DeleteThanks, Mary Lee!
ReplyDelete"The Boy from TV Land" illustrated by one of my favorite artists is @ The Bald Ego blog
And "Hello Pillow" illustrated by the wonderful watercolorist Shirley Ng-Benitez is @ The FATHER GOOSE Blog
You're in! Thanks for coming by...the search engine can only catch the posts that have Poetry Friday in them somewhere!!
DeleteThanks for hosting such a lovely picnic, Mary Lee. Perfect picnic weather here today, unlike most of this hot, dry summer. My co-blogger April Halprin Wayland shares her original poem, DROUGHT, today as part of our series on working through writing droughts:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.teachingauthors.com/2012/08/we-have-winner-and-we-have-writers.html
Thanks for the impromptu picnic, ML. I do love snickerdoodles :)!
ReplyDeleteI quoted A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton today at Bildungsroman.
ReplyDeleteHi Mary Lee,
ReplyDeleteI just found you! Here's my link to a few original cinquains: http://www.lizsteinglass.com/
All the best,
Liz
Thanks for hosting! And I love snicker doodles too, especially dipped in coffee or milk!
ReplyDeleteHi, Mary Lee, thanks so much for stepping in to help host Poetry Friday. Very generous! And I appreciate being rounded up in the group, too. (Hope everything is OK with Andi.)
ReplyDeleteThank you for picking up, Mary Lee. I've been busy today, so just found out. Thanks for including me. I'll try to catch up over the weekend.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mary Lee! I feel better knowing that the round-up has been rounded-up. I hope Andi is vacationing somewhere rather than something less fun going on.
ReplyDeleteMary Lee, thank you SO MUCH for picking this up and running! I feel so bad to have dropped the ball yesterday. You can only imagine the state of my life when I forget poetry. sigh. I did publish today with all the links that were left to me yesterday (not as thorough a job as you have done - kudos to you!). Anyone who wants to be linked also over there please let me know!
ReplyDeleteHi, Mary Lee. Thanks for finding me and letting me know you were hosting the roundup. I really appreciate it! The poem about Gabby Douglas and her ponytail was so wonderful. I really don't understand how her hair even became an issue. Plus, her hair style was identical to that of her teammates and I didn't hear anything about their hair. I love the video response, too. You are right that it is also very powerful. Do you know who put that together? Thanks again for hosting!
ReplyDeleteMary Lee, Echoing thanks for rounding up all of us! And glad to see Andi chiming in, too.
ReplyDeleteThanks as well for sharing the wonderful video(s)/poem. That articulate young woman said it better than most, and with such flair. It was so exciting watching young Gabby during the Olympics.
Mary Lee, would you be able to please tell me how one can be added to the list of Poetry Friday contributors? No one at Kidlitosphere.org returns my messages, but I've been featuring a different poem each Friday since the beginning of the month. Thank you in advance!
ReplyDelete-Matt
Matt,
DeleteSee that schedule of roundup hosts in the sidebar of our blog? Each Friday, you link to the Poetry Friday roundup in your post, and then you go to that blog and leave the roundup host a link to your post and they include it in the roundup. Then you can read through the roundup, commenting on other people's posts, and they can find yours. In June and December I put out a call for roundup hosts, so if you start linking in and getting to know the regulars in the PF community by reading through the roundup and commenting, you might want to be a roundup host in the first half of 2013!!
If you have any other questions, you can email me directly at mlhahn at earthlink dot net.