It’s that time again for the Children’s Poetry Blog Post Roundup. Here’s what’s been happening in the world of children’s poetry this past week. Get ready to see what our fellow poets and teachers have been up to!
Children’s Poetry Summit
Barbara Bleiman’s post on the Writing Poetry at Secondary – Stepping into a Poet’s Shoes looks at how important poetry can be, even in secondary school, where it isn’t emphasized as much as it should be. She uses her experience to show how poetry writing can boost literary analysis.
Danna Smith Book Blog
Danna Smith shared two posts. The first, Engage Kids with Mini Garden Activities This Summer, gives instructions for making seed spheres. The second post, Engaging Activities for Picture Books, highlights activities for her books.
David L. Harrison
David L. Harrison had a bunch of interesting posts this week. First, he wrote about Alan Katz returns to Poetry from Daily Life, and it sounds like we will all be reading more from Alan Katz. There’s also a piece called Little Boy Soup lives on, which is a sweet story about a reader and his book. He also wrote about the Looking for the next poet laureate in Missouri. Finally, he shared about his friend Mary Margaret Hughes‘s guest column.
DreamBeast Poems
In this week’s post, Year 6 Leavers Poem: The Full Stop Day Video, Mark Birdfeatures a video celebrating Year 6 students’ final day with a touching poem.
Joshua Seigal
Joshua Seigal is sharing his poems this week, with his fun pieces, Foxes, and Riverbank Summer.
Laura Purdie Salas
Laura Purdie Salas has been busy, sharing about her trip in Each Day, the Orangutan (a raccontino) + Chicago and also about her new “raccontino” poem.
Live Your Poem
In Claude Picasso and his Toy Horse poem, Irene Latham creates a Poetry Friday contribution from an interview with Claude Picasso (Pablo’s son) and uses it as inspiration for a haiku.
Liz Garton Scanlon
In the post Poetry Project — June, 2025, Liz Garton Scanlon shared a “Raccontino,” inspired by Krishnamurti’s quote.
Michelle Schaub Writes
Michelle Schaub is hosting a story time at the Gardens at Spring Creek on July 2nd.
Miss Rumphius Effect
At Miss Rumphius Effect, Tricia Stohr-Hunt shares her own raccontino poems this week.
Poetry Box
Paula Green at Poetry Box has a few reviews out this week. In Poetry Box reviews two art books: Salvador Dali / Drawing Dragons, she reviews art books. The blog also features a review of Twig and Stones, as well as a showcase of young poets in their June children’s rhyme challenge.
Poetry Pop
Danna Smith’s Poetry Pop has a fun poetry game where you pick an image for inspiration!
Read Write Believe
Sara Lewis Holmes shares a raccontino poem in Poetry Friday: The Raccontino, once again at Read Write Believe.
Reflections on the Teche
Margaret Simon featured a raccontino for Poetry Friday. She also sharee a post on summer storms, called This Photo Wants to be a Poem: Summer Storms. And she wrote a post about what is “normal,” Slice of Life: What is Normal?
Science Rhymes
At Science Rhymes, Celia Berrell reflects on the end of an era with her post Farewell Double Helix.
Shaun Jex
Shaun Jex is celebrating summer with poems from many authors, including his own, in Living in the Sunshine: The Poetry of Summer.
The Poem Farm
And finally, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater at The Poem Farm is asking, What is a Weird Thing About You? and offering a poem about it.
That’s all for this week, friends! Keep writing those poems!
