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Friday, April 29, 2016

Poetry Friday: Rounding Up 30 Books of Poetry!

Head over to Buffy's Blog for today's round-up of poetic goodness.

Thanks to Buffy Silverman for hosting this week's buffet of poetic goodness.

Don't miss her salute to spring music, "Toad's Swampy Serenade."

On the first Poetry Friday in April, I shared book spine poetry.

On the second Poetry Friday in April, I shared eight favorite titles from poets I've met.

On April 19th for my SOL, I shared three titles I handed to reluctant poetry readers.

SOL - Enticing Poetry Books

Edited by J. Patrick Lewis

by Pat Mora

,On the third Poetry Friday in April, I shared line 23, of the 2016 Progressive Poem.

On the fourth Poetry Friday in April, I'm sharing eleven more favorite poetry books

for a grand total of 30+ poetry books shared in April.

I love that Poetry Friday is a year-round celebration of poetry!

Anthologies:

20. Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young,

The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury, and

The Random House Book of Poetry for Children selected by Jack Prelutsky

(I know that's three titles, but I love all of them. Great memories

of my preschool daughter reciting "The Skeletons are Out Tonight" from the first title,

my 6th grade students loving the second title, and reading poems aloud from the third title

on road trips with my husband in the early 80's before kids. )

21. Ten-Second Rainshowers: Poems By Young People compiled by Sanford Lyne

22. Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle . . and Other Modern Verse

compiled by Stephen Dunning, Edward Leuders, & Hugh Smith

23. Julie Andrews' Treasury For All Seasons

selected by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton

24. Sunflakes: Poems for Children selected by Lilian Moore

25. One Big Rain: Poems for Rainy Days compiled by Rita Gray

(When you live in the NW, you must have an anthology

devoted to rain by seasons of the year.)

26. A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children

compiled by Caroline Kennedy

Books by Favorite Poets:

27. Handsprings. Summersaults, Autumnblings, and Winter Eyes

by Douglas Florian

28. A Maze Me: Poems for Girls by Naomi Shihab Nye

29. Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits

30. English, Fresh Squeezed! by Carol Diggory Shields

Oh, and here are some more favorite poets that I couldn't fit in:

Valerie Worth, Karla Kuskin, Alice Schertle, Mary Ann Hoberman,

Bruce Lansky, Bob Raczka, Charles Ghigna, X.J. Kennedy,

Rebecca Kai Doltish, Tracie Vaughn Zimmer, Bill Martin Jr.,

Constance Levy, Myra Cohn Livingston, & Barbara Juster Esbensen!

Be sure to let me know which of your favorite poetry books or authors I left out.

A trip to the library is never complete without a stop by the 800s for poetry.

And here's a pic of me all decked out last week for Poem in Your Pocket Day,

(Can't decide on a favorite poem? Get yourself an apron with many pockets!)

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Slice of Life: Audacious Poetry Promoter

Today I join my fellow bloggers in "serving up a slice"

to the Tuesday Slice of Life (SOL) community.

Thanks to Stacey, Tara, Betsy, Dana, Beth, Anna, Kathleen, and Deb

for hosting this meeting place each Tuesday and nurturing our writing lives.

If it's April, then I'm celebrating - sunshine, longer days, blossoms, and National Poetry Month! Similar to the familiar book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, I come to you today with the fun a retired teacher can have with a platform for poetry. It all starts with Books, Brownies and Beyond, our after school book club. If it's April, then you can be sure that I have at least two bins of poetry books in the trunk of my car. I start collecting them in March with visits to our library on Mercer Island, the Bellevue library, and even a stop by the Issaquah library. I stop by the school library and pull a cart of favorites from the shelves that I can roll down to book club each week. We read poetry books at book club, we sticky note our favorite poems, we copy them, and we mount them on colorful paper - all in preparation for today's Books, Brownies, and Beyond blitz of bulletin boards. We'll head out with those favorite poems and staplers in hand this afternoon to share poetry love with our larger school population.

If it's Poem in Your Pocket Day, then you can be sure that I'll be somewhere at school with a poem in my pocket. This year I showed up in an apron with multiple pockets and poems. Members of Books, Brownies, and Beyond manned a table so students could stop by to share the poem in their pocket and receive a sweet treat in return. At lunch, club members joined librarian Carrie Bowman to hand out poems rolled and tied with ribbon at Tuesday's book club meeting.

If it's the day after Poem in Your Pocket Day and I'm subbing as secretary at the front desk of our school (with lots of candy left over from the day before), I'll sneak in an announcement: "Ms. Behnke is subbing for Ms. McCann. Stop by the front office, share a poem, and she'll share from her leftover stash of candy."

If I'm subbing in the front office, then you can be sure that I'll take advantage of the front counter to promote favorite poetry books. If you pause for more than a moment, I'll plead with you to peruse the pages of Daniel Finds a Poem, my latest "favorite" poetry book.

This teacher (with no poem in her pocket) recited
Shakespeare's Sonnet XCVIII verbatim.

A few of my "favorite" poetry books!

If you're placed in the front office for a appointment with an administrator, I'm sure to share a "favorite" book with you, A Fury of Motion: Poems for Boys by Charles Ghigna. I'll ask you which poem you liked best (the one about soccer), and you'll ask me which poem I liked best ("What's a Poem?") And the best moment of my day? When you pull up a rap on your i-pad (written for a social studies project on prohibition) to share with me!