Welcome back! It’s that time again… time for the Children’s Poetry Blog Post Roundup! Let’s see what the word wizards have been up to this week. Here’s the news from the world of children’s poetry for the past week.
Back Story
Nikki Grimes shares the behind-the-scenes story of her picture book, “Stronger Than: Story Behind the Story”, a tale of heritage and resilience.
Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford celebrates her new book “Family Feast” and her book “Grind: An Ode to Skateboarding” and announces a new program for grades 2-6 that connects the Civil Rights Movement and hip-hop culture.
Children’s Poetry Summit
The Children’s Poetry Summit remembers Chris Holifield with “Chris Holifield – A Tribute.”
David L. Harrison
David L. Harrison has been busy! He’s promoting a fundraiser for the Oregon Coastal Alliance (ORCA) with a post titled “A note of support for ORCA”. He’s also announcing the end of his “Poetry from Daily Life” column with “My goodbye column coming up on Poetry from Daily Life”, and sharing his recollections of “Getting ready for my high school reunion”. He also shares nature writing with “Watching nature watching nature” and a post titled “Here’s the link to Amos Bridges on Poetry from Daily Life”, celebrating the 100th feature of “Poetry from Daily Life.”
DreamBeast Poems
Mark Bird has been bursting with play-themed poems! There is “National Poetry Day Play Poems Anthology. Let Your Imagination Play!” plus “Before I Was Yoyo Champion Of The World’ A Poem About Play & Perseverance” and “A National Poetry Day Play Poem: ‘Call Of Duty: Playtime'”, and “A Dance Poem For Kids That Plays With Words For National Poetry Day”.
Imagine the Possibilities
Rose Cappelli shares a Poetry Friday post, “Poetry Friday: Last Rose of Summer?”.
Joshua Seigal
Joshua Seigal shares the collaborative poem “Poem for Warren Mead Primary School, Surrey” created with students.
Kate Williams
Kate Williams has a post talking about her book “SQUEAK! SQUAWK! ROAR!” and “Poetry Workshops made Simple!”.
Laura Purdie Salas
Laura Purdie Salas is sharing a new poem, “The Cold Burn of Gold, a Tritina”, in her Poetry Friday post.
Live Your Poem
Irene Latham celebrates National Poetry Day with “Three 2025 Children’s Poetry Books + Love Poem”.
Liz Garton Scanlon
Liz Garton Scanlon shares a poem, “Poetry Project — September, 2025”.
Miss Rumphius Effect
Patricia Stohr-Hunt tackles the tritina form in her post “Poetry Sisters Write Tritina”.
Poetry Pop
Danna Smith welcomes the season with “Celebrating Autumn: A Poem Tribute to Fall”.
Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
Matt Forrest Esenwine shares poems by non-speaking autistic poets in his Poetry Friday post, “Poetry Friday: Sharing poems written by folks who aren’t supposed to be able to write poetry”.
Reflections on the Teche
This week, Margret Simon is promoting “Poetry Friday: Wood Duck Diary” and a new book by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater. She is also celebrating the wild petunia with “This Photo Wants to be a Poem: Wild Petunia” and celebrating the placing of a historical marker at “Slice of Life: Pirate’s Tunnel”.
Salt City Verse
Janice Scully explores the rictameter form in “A Rictameter and a Changing World”.
Shaun Jex
Shaun Jex explores poetry and fear in his post “Tim’rous Beastie: Poetry and Fear”.
The Poem Farm
And Amy Ludwig VanDerwater offers prompts in her Poetry Friday post, “Try Something New on Poetry Friday”.
That’s all for this week, folks! Keep writing those poems, and I’ll see you next time!
