4:13 AM UPDATE: All the links should be working now. Email me or leave me a comment if they're not. Sorry for the confusion!!!3:43 AM BLOGGER HATES ME. My code looks absolutely fine, but when I put up the page, most of the links get switched to my own blog. Working on the technical difficulties - please stand by while I run and shove cucumber sandwiches in blogger's main computer. Grr.dedicated to my buddy Pete because I didn't get his email responded to quicklyFind an
original sestina by Cloudscome that she wrote for Miss Rumphius's Monday Poetry Stretch challenge.
Kelly R. Fineman Any post that references Les Miz gets kindred spirit points big time. Oh, and there's a sonnet there, too.
From across the pond, Michele's got a
Wordsworth tribute.Laura's in with a 15 Words or Less
poem and an
original poem for Miss Rumphius' Poetry Stretch.
Andrea from Just One More Book sends
Flipped Fundamentals, a podcast conversation about a Rhyming Alphabet book with an entertaining and educational twist, "A isn't for Fox -- An Isn't Alphabet."
Lisa's put up two poems from the American Revolutionary War in a post titled
"poetry and the price of freedom."TadMack from
Finding Wonderland writes, "I'm in with a
traditional English summer song, since I'm not having an American celebration today." The cucumber sandwiches are for you, my Scottish friend!
Marcie at
World of Words contributes a
poem about baseball and living in another culture.Karen provides an original
cranky haiku, proving she and I are kindred spirits (though she doesn't know it).
Jennie has put up one of my favorite
songs over at Biblio File.
Becky has a
review of Lady Liberty (an illustrated biography.)
"Canis Major” by Robert Frost is up over at Nancy’s blog,
Naturally Speaking.
Sylvia Vardell, who is
not in her pajamas (she’s traveling), reports on the
5th annual ALSC Poetry Blast held on Monday at the ALA convention. What a bonanza of 13 poets reading from their work!
You can find david elzey’s
original poem over at
fomagrams.
What would July be without
Shel Silverstein? This one’s from our Canuck friend Lisa @
alotalot (with a great suggestion in the comments by Cloudscome.)
Sarah Rettger has
Langston Hughes. Really nice clip.
Haiku Baby looks like a darling book. Read Franki’s
review.
7Imp is in with
an original very, very bad poem over at Lynn Hazen's blog.
Here's how the hilarity (Aerin’s word) started!
Elaine has two poems up this week. At
Wild Rose Reader, you’ll find a poem for Independence Day entitled
"Fourth of July Parade.” Then, at
Blue Rose Girls, she has a poem by New Mexican poet Cynthia Gray entitled
"High Desert July."Nicola Turner, aka Mme T, from St. Paul returns to Poetry Friday from traveling in South Carolina. Her original poem is titled
Spanish Moss.
Susan T. at
Chicken Spaghetti put up Lewis Carroll’s
fantastic “A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky.” Isn’t this just the quintessential summer poem? Thanks, Susan!
Little Willow (aka
slayground) put up a passage from Lisa Ann Sandell’s verse novel
The Weight of the Sky.Performance art from the Miss Rumphius Effect!! Tricia has up Norman Lear’s
presentation of the Declaration of Independence.
Cuileann is reading a book I just finished last week – Shannon Hale’s
Enna Burning. Oh, and she has up
Jesus the Mexican Boy for Poetry Friday.
Sapphic stanzas and a gorgeous page layout at Knocking Inside’s
“Watson Retires”, by Tiel Asha Ansari
Part of the poem
“Immigrant Picnic” by Gregory Djanikian. Thanks, Ruth!
A person with a fabulous name (Okay, it’s Erin) contributes
The Song of Freedom by Lewis Eron.
Read Felicity's
"I Hear America Singing".
Springsteen and a very cool fireworks picture are up over at Miss Mulhern's
The Reading Zone.And, in a daring
post-fireworks entry, Liz Scanlon has put up her
poem over at
Liz in Ink.
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
