Happy Friday, everyone! It’s the final Friday of the 2019 Slice of Life Challenge at Two Writing Teachers AND it’s Poetry Friday. I’m slicing up a bit of cheerful, hope-filled poetry this gloomy Friday in New England. Carol is hosting this week’s PF gathering on her blog, Carol’s Corner. Slicers — Won’t you join us there as well? Links to all this week’s poetry posts can be found here.
In her post today, Carol offers up a daffodilled poem by Ralph Fletcher, who serves as a writing teacher mentor to so many of us. This blast of spring nudged me to revisit, retool, renew, and refresh one of the first poems I ever wrote. It was originally inspired, and continues to be, by the daffodils in my garden which are beginning to poke their heads up through the crusty late winter soil.
Slicing small moment-inspired poetry on Tuesday’s during National Poetry Month in April is a great way to flex those writing muscles. And, if you are ever wondering where to find the weekly host of Poetry Friday, you’ll find a list of hosts and their blog links here.
And introducing….
On Monday members of the Poetry Friday family (some of whom are SOLC writers you will recognize) will be launching 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 kicks things off on Monday. I’m excited to provide the 14th line on Sunday, April 14th. I hope you’ll join us to see what happens! We have no idea what the poem is about yet, so stay tuned! Here’s the itinerary for the poem.
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
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Wondering and Wandering 