Welcome back, everyone! It’s time again for the Children’s Poetry Blog Post Roundup, where we round up all the news and updates from the wonderful world of children’s poetry for the past week. Here’s what’s been happening lately:
Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford‘s post, “History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”–Mark Twain, showcases poems from her books Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive and Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time: A One-Man Show, exploring how these historical figures still speak to our present day.
Children’s Poetry Summit
For National Poetry Day, the Children’s Poetry Summit shared a post titled Pie Corbett: Ambush the Reader about using unexpected word combinations to spark creativity, especially for children, providing an activity idea to get kids writing.
Danna Smith Book Blog
Danna Smith shared exciting news in the post The Thank You Book Joins Ready Readers’ 25-’26 Program, announcing that her book, The Thank You Book, will be included in the Ready Readers ’25-’26 Storytime Program.
David L. Harrison
David L. Harrison had a busy week, starting with Somebody Catch My Homework, the play, where the play, which is based on 19 of David L. Harrison‘s poems, is currently touring Wisconsin. He also announced the new word for his monthly poetry challenge, “STEP,” in The word for October is…. In And on we go, he congratulated Justin Hamm on becoming Missouri’s Poet Laureate and discussed an upcoming book project. He reflected on a special evening in Oh what a night!, and in My final day as Missouri Poet Laureate, he described his final day as Missouri’s 7th Poet Laureate. Lastly, he announced the end of his poetry column, “Poetry from Daily Life” in the post titled Today is the last feature for Poetry from Daily Life and shared a note of support for his son’s organization in A note of support for ORCA.
Joshua Seigal
Joshua Seigal shared a whimsical poem called Eyebrows, inspired by Jack Prelutsky.
Kate Williams
Kate Williams is offering free writing prompts in exchange for purchasing her book in the post Autumn Leaves Poetry Prompts Offer!. She also shared that her book, Squeak! Squawk! Roar!, has been re-selected for the School Reading List’s poetry recommendations for ages 7-11 in Recommended again!.
Laura Purdie Salas
Laura Purdie Salas shared a one-sentence excerpt from her upcoming book in One-Sentence Excerpt from Flurry, Float, and Fly!.
Live Your Poem
Irene Latham announced her upcoming novel, SOME STARRY NIGHT, my first novel for adults, coming in 2026!, which reimagines the story of Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night.”
Poetry Roundabout
Liz Brownlee shared National Poetry Day 2025 – Play! featuring a playful concrete poem about a squirrel.
Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
Matt Forrest Esenwine is celebrating six months of a poetry collection in his blog post titled Poetry Friday: Celebrating 6 months of ‘Rainbows,’ Chappaqua, the NH Book Festival, AND the PF Roundup! (Whew!).
Reflections on the Teche
Margaret Simon’s post Poetry Friday: A Recipe for Friendship shared an “Inklings” challenge to create image poems. In the post Spiritual Journey Thursday: Compassionate Rainbow, she shared a story about connecting with friends by sending photos of a rainbow. Another post, This Photo Wants to be a Poem: Surprise Lily, features a poem about a lily, while the post Slice of Life: Native Plants features a story about gardening.
Sarah Ziman
Sarah Ziman shared about her visit to Latymer Prep for National Poetry Day in National Poetry Day 2025 at Latymer Prep.
The Poem Farm
In Take Photos! Repeat End Words!, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater offers writing prompts based on photography and repeating words, inspired by bees and ladybugs in her garden.
That’s the scoop for this week! Keep those poems coming, everyone!
