Weekly Children’s Poetry Roundup – Saturday, November 22, 2025

It’s that time again! Time for this week’s Children’s Poetry Blog Post Roundup! Pull up a chair and get ready for the latest news and updates from the world of children’s poetry. Here’s what’s been happening in the past week:

Children’s Poetry Summit

The Children’s Poetry Summit website has a profile of Roy Johnson, a commissioning editor at Troika Books. The interview discusses his work, his love of poetry, and the publisher’s aims for quality and diversity.

David L. Harrison

Over at David L. Harrison‘s blog, you can read about his reflections on his enduring globe locust tree in Still here. There’s also a post about how Bob Stephens is choosing poems for an anthology titled Choosing 5 poems for a book, and another about a recent chat More on my recent chat with Sam Bommarito that highlights David‘s poetry methods.

Imagine the Possibilities

This week, the Rose Cappelli features a Poetry Friday post about “Ocean City Sunrise” soap in Poetry Friday: Life’s Little Pleasures and includes a mention of the upcoming NCTE conference.

Joshua Seigal

Joshua Seigal has been busy! On his blog, he reflects on the concepts of life and death in the poem Opposites and explores a house in chaos in Since You Left. He also shares an inspiring poem from a student in an inspiring poem from East Acton Primary School.

Kate Williams

Kate Williams is sharing the updated cover image and excerpts of reviews for her book, “Squeak,” in New Book Image.

Laura Purdie Salas

Laura Purdie Salas starts this week’s Poetry Friday with If an Aurora Appears. She is also spotlighting her new book, “Flurry, Float, and Fly,” and sharing opportunities for teachers, which you can read about in Flurry, Float, and Fly Is at Blissfully Bookish!.

Live Your Poem

At the “Live Your Poem” blog, you can find a post about Heidi E.Y. Stemple‘s new verse novel, The Poetry of Car Mechanics in The Poetry of Car Mechanics by Heidi E.Y. Stemple, including excerpts and an interview.

Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme

Matt Forrest Esenwine at Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme is gearing up for the NCTE convention. He is discussing how to free students’ writing and is including Robert Frost‘s poem Poetry Friday: Gearing up for #NCTE2025 with…Robert Frost?

Reflections on the Teche

Margaret Simon at Reflections on the Teche is also heading to NCTE and sharing a photograph in This Photo Wants to be a Poem: Elusive Egret, and she includes a Zeno poem. She also shares a kenning poem about her grandson in Slice of Life: Grandson Kenning.

Salt City Verse

The “Salt City Verse” blog has a Poetry Friday roundup, featuring a review of the book “Your One and Only Heart” by Dr. Rajani LaRocca in Poetry Friday Roundup is Here: YOUR ONE AND ONLY HEART.

Shaun Jex

And Shaun Jex has a post that is challenging readers to embrace the eccentricities of the English language and create their own poems inspired by its oddities in Three Languages in a Trench Coat: Poems About English.

Happy reading, everyone!

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