Poetry Friday -- February 27, 2009

Welcome to Poetry Friday!  Please post your links in the comments.  It's going to be a busy day but I will post as soon as possible.  Thank you and have a wonderful weekend!

Here is the roundup -- I am so sorry this is so late, life has kept me away from the computer until now.

1. Yat Yee is in with Optimism by Jane Hirshfield.
   
2. Jill Corcoran wrote about the dearth of riddle and acrostic children's poetry collections with links to a few original riddle and acrostic poems. Be sure to read the comments, J. Patrick Lewis treated us to an original riddle poem included in his forthcoming riddle poetry Collection, SPOT THE PLOT
   
3. Jim of Haunts for a Children's Writer shares his lipogram poem Scrabble 
   
4. Liz in Ink shares some wackiness from Richard Wilbur this week with a Paul Laurence Dunbar poem entitled On the Receipt of a Familiar Poem.
5. SusanWrites is in with Poems of 15 Words or less 
   
6. John posts about Octavio Paz.
   
7. Susan selected a poem by Michele Elliot, saying, "I have recited Ms. Elliot's poem publicly and privately often."
   
8. Gregory K. reposts the first poem he blogged, three years ago: Reasons Why I Don't Write
   
9. Little Willow shares The Unforgiven by Edwin Arlington Robinson at Bildungsroman
   
10. Kim shares Fog is the order of the day.
    
11. Julie at The Drift Record has general rant about long winters as well as Sara Teasdale's lovely poem, "Redbird."
12. Mary Lee from A Year of Reading says, "Now that I'm back in rainy, chilly Ohio, my poem this week seems like a dream. I wrote it on Wednesday following a perfect afternoon at the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix. It is called No Words To Describe."
13. Cloudscome shares a review of Charles R. Smith's book on Langston Hughes' poem "My People" at A Wrung Sponge
14. Janet posted Shakespeare's version of Henry V's speech at Agincourt
15. Jama shares a spoonful of wisdom from Richard Jones
16. Jet concludes a series of love poems, saying "Today, it's a lovely poem by W.B. Yeats, The Wandering Aengus, from The Wind Among the Reeds."
17. Kelly is in with Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes by Ben Jonson.
18. Shelf Elf is in with a little original poem: a haiku about a grey cat who lives at the end of my street 
19. Jennifer at InkforLit has philosophy in a carrot seed -- sounds fascinating!
20. LauraSalas has a poem by Billy Collins called "Evasive Maneuvers"
21. Sara shares Mary Jo Bang's And as in Alice.
22. Andrea from Just One More Book! shares "a chat about There's a Babirusa in My Bathtub -- a sly hybrid of silly poetry and hard-to-believe, non-fiction"
23. This week's poetry selection on The Stenhouse Blog is The Writer by Richard Wilbur.
24. Jone shares macaronic verse
25. Ruth shares "Late at Night in Bed," by Gregory Djanikian.
26. Nandini says, "I have `Ducks' Ditty.' From Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. It was a childhood favorite, though I also blame Wind in the Willow for my adverb habit. More on that on my blog ... Check it out at Notes from New England"
27. Jules at 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast shares I'm in with Michael J. Rosen's CUCKOO'S HAIKU
28. Kelly shares the poem Gunslinger, which was written by more than one author. 
29. David Elzey shares "a hybrid post, a collection of haiku and some suggestions for the publishing industry. You can ignore the non-poetry stuff and read just the poems if you like, I don't mind."
30. Karen E is in with some Ted Kooser today
31. Elaine At Wild Rose Reader shares an original poem, a macaronic verse, entitled The Exterminator's list of Thngs to do."
32. Blue Rose Girls has  a poem by Mark Strand entitled Poet Roast. 
33. Lorie Ann Grover has original poem, My Demon. 
34. Readertotz features a poem called Icicle! 
35. Tiel Aisha Ansari shares an original poem, Invisible Ink, at Knocking from Inside.
36. Debbie Diesen says "this week I'm back to my yearlong project of reading all of Carl Sandburg's poems"
37. Jennie shares classic Sesame Street songs!
38. Katie's Literature Lounge shares a book of poems called Falling Down the Page. 
39. Florian Cafe serves a Jack Prelutsky poem at table 5
40. Ayuddha.net has "I Want to Be Your Shoebox" by Catherine Bowman, which inspired Cristina Garcia's middle grade novel, I Wanna Be Your Shoebox.
41. Kurious Kitty talks about Ashley Bryan and his role as promoter of poetry. 
42. Martha Calderaro has been reading a biography of Langston Hughes this week and shares notes
43. Tracie Zimmer shares "At Blackwater Pond" by Mary Oliver
44. KiddosandBooks shares Rowena Bennett's Springtime In The Park.
45. Tanita S. Davis shares Courage by Amelia Earhart. 
46. Becky at Farm School has a poem by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "The February Hush"
47. Sam is in with a gross poem -- by a real poet this time.
48. Miss Erin shares a poem called Poppies
49. Stacey from Two Writing Teachers shares an original poem
50. Kim is in with Fogginess!
51. Carol shares a review of ORDINARY THINGS, a favorite Spring Poetry book, at Carol's Corner