Hey there! It’s time again for this week’s Children’s Poetry Blog Post Roundup! Let’s see what the creative minds in the children’s poetry world have been up to this past week.
Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford had a busy summer! Her blog post, Fall Feature Presentations, Summer Rewind, the Read-Aloud GOAT & Maryland’s Biggest Book Club chronicles her summer highlights, from performances to awards, plus news about upcoming presentations and a book tour.
Children’s Poetry Summit
Over at Children’s Poetry Summit, the focus was on illustrations in children’s poetry. The post, Kate Wakeling: Poems and Illustrations discussed how integral illustrations are to a finished poetry collection.
Danna Smith Book Blog
Danna Smith wrote about her book, The Magic of Falconry: Blending Fact with Fiction in Children’s Books. She discussed how her childhood fascination with falconry inspired her children’s book, “The Hawk of the Castle,” and how she blended real facts with a fictional story.
David L. Harrison
David L. Harrison has been quite busy this week! He wrote about turning a single sound into a story with Turning a sound into a story. He also shared news that Jo Van Arkel is coming back to Poetry from Daily Life and has a second column out. And speaking of columns, Ellen Hopkins is featured in a column with the post, Ellen Hopkins featured on Poetry from Daily Life. In addition to that, David L. Harrison is hosting a concluding event on September 30th, discussed in the post, Getting set for September 30. Plus, David looks back at a successful workshop in What you do after giving a workshop and he recounts the workshop itself in I had a fine time at the workshop.
DreamBeast Poems
At DreamBeast Poems, Mark Bird has posts about a Halloween picture book with the post, A Halloween Picture Book: A Halloween Story For Kids With A Twist, and a robot kangaroo story A Robot Kangaroo Story For Kids At The Zoo: The Klangaroo.
Joshua Seigal
Joshua Seigal served up a few lighthearted poems this week, including one about Wetherby, a poem about the familiar situation of a day off in Every Time, and a poem about a pigeon’s simple “religion” in Bread of Heaven.
Live Your Poem
Irene Latham’s blog, Live Your Poem, featured a Music Theory poem in this week’s Poetry Friday post, connecting music to a theme through ArtSpeak.
Liz Garton Scanlon
This month’s poetry project from Liz Garton Scanlon is inspired by the overarching theme of conversation. Poetry Project — August, 2025 includes a response poem by Liz Garton Scanlon to Nikki Giovanni’s “Talk to Me, Poem” with other poets joining in.
Miss Rumphius Effect
At The Miss Rumphius Effect blog, Patricia Stohr-Hunt shared a creative response to Nikki Giovanni’s “Talk to Me Poem, I Think I Got the Blues” with the post, Poetry Sisters Talk Back to a Poem.
Poetry Box
Over at Poetry Box, Paula Green has a post celebrating imagination poems, inspired by Margaret Mahy in Poetry Box August challenge: some favourite imagination poems. She also reviewed Swapna Haddow’s Why Not? in the post, Poetry Box review: Why Not? by Swapna Haddow, and highlighted a cat poem challenge in Poetry Box popUP challenge: some favourite cat poems.
Poetry Pop
Danna Smith featured three poems by Anna Banasiak on Poetry Pop in the post, Guest Pop: The Poetry of Anna Banasiak.
Reflections on the Teche
On Reflections on the Teche, Margaret Simon shared an elfchen poem about sunflowers and a post in the photo-poem form: This Photo Wants to be a Poem: Sunflowers . And also a slice of life in the post, Slice of Life: Domestic Turtle.
Salt City Verse
For Poetry Friday, Janice Scully hosted a post inspired by her travels through Wisconsin, titled Each State Brings Something Different, for Example, Wisconsin.
Shaun Jex
This week, Shaun Jex encouraged readers to write a poem about a pet and offered several poems for inspiration in the post, Of Pets and Poems.
And that’s it for this week’s Children’s Poetry Blog Post Roundup! See you next week!
