It’s Poetry Friday! My dear poetry pal and fellow Wonderopolis Lead Ambassador, Carol Varsalona, is hosting the round up this week. I do hope you will visit her at Beyond Literacy Link as well as other PF participants throughout the upcoming week. Carol is lucky to live on the Long Island coast and that setting provides her with loads of poetic inspiration, even if it’s a foggy and gray day. Thanks for hosting the round up this week, Carol!
A peek into my poems and process.
- Lately I have been trying to write more poetry to use with my students. Why not, right? We love to take nature walks so I wrote this one just for them. It’s perfect for Earth Day week, too!
Just four more days of National Poetry Month to go. If you are looking to share a little poetry wonder with your students, check out this Padlet of all the poetry-related wonders on Wonderopolis. Perhaps they’ll find a bit of inspiration here!
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And introducing….
On April 1, the Poetry Friday family launched the 7th annual Kidlitosphere Progressive Poem organized by author/poet, Irene Latham. (Click here to learn more.) Many of us have signed up to provide a line for the 2019 poem. Author/poet Matt Forrest Esenwine kicked things off with some familiar “found” phrases merged to get us going. Today’s line comes from Linda Kulp Trout at Write Time. Participants are having fun lifting favorite song lyrics to create the next line in the poem. I was excited to provide the 14th line on Sunday, April 14th. I hope you’ll join us to see what happens! Here’s the itinerary for the poem.
April
1 Matt @Radio, Rhythm and Rhyme
2 Kat @Kathryn Apel
3 Kimberly @KimberlyHutmacherWrites
4 Jone @DeoWriter
5 Linda @TeacherDance
6 Tara @Going to Walden
7 Ruth @thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown
8 Mary Lee @A Year of Reading
9 Rebecca @Rebecca Herzog
10 Janet F. @Live Your Poem
11 Dani @Doing the Work that Matters
12 Margaret @Reflections on the Teche
13 Doraine @Dori Reads
14 Christie @Wondering and Wandering
15 Robyn @Life on the Deckle Edge
16 Carol @Beyond LiteracyLink
17 Amy @The Poem Farm
18 Linda @A Word Edgewise
19 Heidi @my juicy little universe
20 Buffy @Buffy’s Blog
21 Michelle @Michelle Kogan
22 Catherine @Reading to the Core
23 Penny @a penny and her jots
24 Tabatha @The Opposite of Indifference
25 Jan @Bookseestudio
26 Linda @Write Time
27 Sheila @Sheila Renfro
28 Liz @Elizabeth Steinglass
29 Irene @Live Your Poem
30 Donna @Mainely Write
Wondering and Wandering 
I love this idea of writing poetry to use with children. I also love this poem. I am writing a memoir in poetry and have been contemplating getting some feedback from students I am working with. I’m just not sure I’m ready for their honesty!
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I love your goal of writing more poetry to use with your students, Christie, and by writing about them, what better motivation for them to want to write poems too! Win-win!
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Christie, your poem for your kinders is just charming for a children’s poem. I can hear the delightful shouts of glee from your students when you share this one. They will also like that their walk photo accompanies the poem.
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Simply delightful! I think your poems are such a gift to and from your students. They are so fortunate to be learning in layers of poetry. Now, I need to take a walk!
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Love that you took your students out! And that you wrote a poem in their voice. They are so lucky to have you show them the poetry that is in nature!
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Nature walks are the best, especially with children! I hope to read more of your poems inspired by walks with your students!
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More teachers need to write with and for their children!
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I’m sure your students love recognizing themselves and their activities in their poem. What a great way to show them how to recognize opportunities for poetry in their own lives!
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Your students are lucky to have a teacher to write poems for them–and take them on nature walks.
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