Welcome to this week’s Children’s Poetry Blog Post Roundup! It is time once again to summarize the latest news, creative inspirations, and poetic updates from around the children’s poetry community from the past week. Whether you are a poet looking for a spark of inspiration or an elementary school teacher seeking fresh ideas for the classroom, there is plenty to discover.
Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford shared her K–12 author and illustrator visit offerings for the school year in Author & Illustrator Visits with a Focus on Nonfiction & Poetry. Drawing on her extensive collection of verse and historical books, her interactive school programs demonstrate how poetry can be used to research and document history, science, and community achievements.
Children’s Poetry Summit
The Children’s Poetry Summit celebrated National Poetry Day with a vibrant series of wonder-themed collections. They showcased natural world poems by UK poets such as Attie Lime, John Rice, Rhona Stephens, Pie Corbett, Andrea Shavick, Julie Stevens, Philip Waddell, Linda Middleton, and Mims Sully in A World of Wonder-ful Nature Poems on National Poetry Day. Their second feature, A World of Wonder Poems on National Poetry Day 2026, presented playful verse illustrated by Chris Riddell alongside a brief science note about space orbit, while A World of Animal Wonder Poems on National Poetry Day gathered delightful verses celebrating creatures large and small across the animal kingdom.
David L. Harrison
David L. Harrison brought us along through a week filled with reflections and creative updates. In A pure feel good experience, he thanked school librarian Angela Knight for a warm window display honoring his work ahead of an upcoming visit. He looked back on a quarter-century of publication history in And here’s Johnny, explored recent blog recognitions in First Route 66, now Blog 66 and Maybe yes, maybe no, detailed his writing collaborations with Laura Robb in Not much time to play this week, and expressed his gratitude to international readers in Thank you after reaching over 5,200 posts.
DreamBeast Poems
Mark Bird posted a gentle verse for young readers titled Dawdle More: A Mindfulness Poem for Kids – Slow Down and Savour Life, encouraging children to pause, take a deep breath, and observe the small wonders in the world around them.
Elizabeth Acevedo
It was a landmark week for Elizabeth Acevedo, who announced her recognition as a major award recipient in Elizabeth Acevedo – Winner of the 2027 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature!. She also shared personal reading recommendations in Elizabeth Acevedo Featured Interview: ELLE | Shelf Life, provided classroom resources in Get Access to the Educator Guide for Anger Is Only a Shadow by Elizabeth Acevedo!, and celebrated a major publishing milestone in Anger Is Only a Shadow Debuts on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Imagine the Possibilities
Rose Cappelli marked Poetry Friday in Poetry Friday: Goodbye Zinnias by sharing reflections on autumn storms and fading gardens, offering an original poem about resilience alongside the weekly community roundup host Margaret Simon.
Joshua Seigal
Joshua Seigal shared a vibrant assortment of posts this week, beginning with clever wordplay in Humans Are…. In National Poetry Day – Embedding Poetry Across the Curriculum, he advocated for incorporating verse into every school subject, while Our Teacher offered a thought-provoking poem contemplating automated technology and teaching.
Kate Williams
Kate Williams celebrated the National Poetry Day festivities in National Poetry Day (UK), inviting readers to explore various wonder-themed poems and noting the inclusion of her own work, My Town at Night, in the summit lineup.
Live Your Poem
Irene Latham posted from her travels to a children’s writing conference in i am sad (poem), discussing artwork by Nellie Mae Rowe and presenting a short poem exploring childhood sadness, with a friendly tip toward host Margaret Simon.
Liz Brownlee Poet
Liz Brownlee posted a delightful video project in National Poetry Day – Pelican by Celia Warrren!, featuring an animated tarsier poem created for National Poetry Day celebrations alongside contributions honoring late poet Celia Warren.
My Juicy Little Universe
Heidi Mordhorst introduced an engaging Inklings creative writing exercise inspired by poet Maggie Smith and hosted by Linda Mitchell in line by line challenge. She also shared travel notes from England in brighton journal: “the downs” and offered a thoughtful reflection touching on author Annie Dillard in in the meantime.
Poetry Pop
Danna Smith shared a helpful resource for writers in Rhyme Hamster: A Smart, Free Rhyming Dictionary for Creatives, highlighting a free digital tool created by lyricist Jeremy Desmon to help poets craft rhymes.
Poetry Roundabout
Liz Brownlee shared a remarkable sequence of video performances celebrating National Poetry Day, including readings by Gerard Benson in National Poetry Day 2026, Gerard Benson Performs The Cat and the Pig, Wonder Poem and her own reading in In the Dark – a reading of a poem of wonder by Liz Brownlee. The showcase continued with National Poetry Day Wonder Poem Video, Still Not Big Enough, by Philip Waddell, Read by Imogen Taylor, performances by John Dougherty in National Poetry Day 2026, Wonder Poem, John Dougherty Performs ‘Next Door’s Cat’ and Jan Dean in National Poetry Day Wonder Poetry Video – Jan Dean, and ‘My Gift’, an animated piece in National Poetry Day Wonder Poem Video – Alaskan Wood Frog Animation, by Liz Brownlee, and a tribute to Celia Warren in National Poetry Day Poem videos about Wonder – Celia Warren reads ‘Pelican’..
Reflections on the Teche
Margaret Simon gathered poets and writing prompts across three vibrant posts this week. In Poetry Friday Roundup: Inklings Challenge, she hosted the roundup and explored line transformations inspired by Linda Mitchell alongside works by Wendell Berry, James Crews, and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. She reflected on faith and creative art with contributions by Patricia Franz, Stephanie Paterson, and Andrea Gibson in Spiritual Thursday: Trust, and shared a draft about local memories in Slice of Life: Moon Morning.
Shaun Jex
And lastly, Shaun Jex welcomed the crisp fall weather in Harvesting a Poem, sharing apple-picking memories alongside an original piece and inviting readers to craft a poem about their own seasonal harvests.
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