Ideas Grow

May 29, 2015 by margaretsmn

Round up is here today!

Don’t you love how small ideas can grow into big ideas with the strength of social media? Some ideas you can hardly trace back to the original owner. Take Poetry Friday, for example. How did it get started? Does anyone know?

On Facebook this week, I was tagged in a post, “For the love of poetry, let’s scatter poems all over Facebook.” I jumped in and tagged a few more people and now they are posting and tagging. How long will this go on? Ideas grow.

Last Sunday, I didn’t know what to write about for DigiLit Sunday, a round up of digital literacy posts that I started. I was about to give up. The last week of school was over, and I was bone dry. On a whim, I posted a digital challenge. Check it out here. I feel it was a huge success because there were a few people who joined in that I didn’t know. I’ll be posting another challenge this Sunday. Tune in. Here’s the Pinterest board full of digital images and poems.

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater was given a push by Kimberley Moran to have a Try This section on Sharing our Notebooks. Amy invited bloggers to send her ideas and her page is now full of 40+ Try This ideas. Wow!

Today Michelle Hendrick Barnes is posting her gallery of free verse word poems inspired by Nikki Grimes. I don’t always take part, but I did this month. There is something so satisfying about participating in a community. And sharing poetry.

In this digital world, poetry is available and accessible to anyone. Welcome to the Poetry Friday Parade. Jump in line anytime or just stand on the side and wave. It’s all good.

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Posted in Poetry Friday | Tagged #DigiPoetry, Facebook poetry | 30 Comments

30 Responses

on May 29, 2015 at 2:03 am | Reply Keri Collins Lewis

Thanks for hosting, my friend! I hope you will soon feel restored to your normal juicy self after school is out for a bit. I’m intrigued by your challenge and am fascinated by the Waterlogue app. I’ll have to give both a try!
on May 29, 2015 at 2:18 am | Reply Laura Shovan

Hi, Margaret. Thank you for hosting this week. I’m so grateful to be part of the Poetry Friday community and all of the sharing that we do — poetry challenges, blogging, encouraging each other.

This week, I am encouraging my third grade students to try writing with stanzas. Their opposite poems are up today at Author Amok. http://authoramok.blogspot.com/2015/05/in-residence-opposite-poems.html
on May 29, 2015 at 2:20 am | Reply dmayr

So many challenges, so little time! Have you signed up for Tabatha’s summer poem swap?
on May 29, 2015 at 2:26 am | Reply Robyn Hood Black

Thanks for hosting, Margaret. So much poetic goodness in the Kidlitosphere and beyond! Re. how Poetry Friday started/what it is/etc., Tabatha did a great introductory guest post last year at Savvy Verse and Wit – http://savvyverseandwit.com/2014/04/guest-post-an-introduction-to-poetry-friday-by-tabatha-yeatts.html — It includes quotes from several PF regulars! :0)

My offering today includes student poetry from across the globe. Kala Ramesh, editor of the United Haiku and Tanka Society’s publication’s Youth Corner, is our special guest. http://www.robynhoodblack.com/blog.htm?post=997737
Happy End of School!
on May 29, 2015 at 2:26 am | Reply Michelle Heidenrich Barnes

One of my favorite inspirational songs is “From Little Things, Big Things Grow” by the iconic Australian singer-songwriter (think Bob Dylan down under), Paul Kelly. Community rocks! Seriously. And I’m glad to be in this Poetry Friday community with you, Margaret.
on May 29, 2015 at 2:28 am | Reply Robyn Hood Black

(PS – Just realized you and I are both quoted in Tabatha’s guest post.) ;0)
on May 29, 2015 at 2:38 am | Reply Matt Forrest Esenwine

Thanks for hosting, Margaret. Like Diane said, so many opportunities to write, but so little time…I wish I could do them all!
on May 29, 2015 at 2:54 am | Reply jama

Poetry Friday is a wonderful community. Have you read Susan Thomsen’s article at the Poetry Foundation about how it started?

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/children/article/179694

At Alphabet Soup I’m all about tortillas this week.

Thanks for hosting, Margaret!
on May 29, 2015 at 3:23 am | Reply Linda Baie

I have enjoyed Facebook more now that the poems keep coming, Margaret. You’re right; ideas grow. Soon I’ll be finished with the year and can contribute more to your Pinterest Page. They look good, don’t they? I’m in with a poem for Michelle’s and Nikki’s challenge today: http://www.teacherdance.org/2015/05/considering-leaf-in-may.html Thanks for hosting and for your lovely post.
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on May 29, 2015 at 4:22 am | Reply amyludwigvanderwater

Indeed, there is so much goodness. The Poetry Friday community is a haven of friends, and I am truly grateful to be a part of it. Thank you, Margaret, for your insatiable curiosity, generosity, and for hosting today. Scatter good!

Today at The Poem Farm, I have a bittersweet poem about our cat and his old buddy-brother…

http://www.poemfarm.amylv.com/2015/05/firepaw-and-charlie-friendship-poem.html%5D

Happy Poetry Friday! xo, a.
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on May 29, 2015 at 5:59 am | Reply readingtothecore

Thank you for hosting today, Margaret! I agree with you about the wonders of this Poetry Friday community. I feel so fortunate to be included!
on May 29, 2015 at 7:26 am | Reply Greg Pincus

Thanks for hosting! And yay to the Poetry Friday community, too (and how its tendrils spread all over the place). (Huh. I will try a different browser, but am getting a dead link on the widget. I’m up with links to three of my old end-of-school-year poems today, for the record: http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2015/05/three-end-of-school-year-or-summer.html)
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on May 29, 2015 at 10:37 am | Reply Seahorse Art & Poem | Catherine M Johnson

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on May 29, 2015 at 10:39 am | Reply Becky Shillington

Thank you so much for hosting today, Margaret! I agree–it is immensely satisfying to be part of a community that shares poetry and ideas so freely and with such joy! I like your idea for DigiLit Sunday. Your digital poem is beautiful! Today on my blog I am sharing a Carolina goose haiku: http://beckyshillington.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-friday-carolina-goose-haiku.html
on May 29, 2015 at 10:43 am | Reply Catherine Johnson

Thanks for hosting, Margaret. I’m going to join your DigiLitSundays and have a go today at digipoetry while it’s art related.

I have a post about seahorses today http://www.catherinemjohnson.com/?p=9170
on May 29, 2015 at 10:56 am | Reply Laura Purdie Salas

Hi Margaret! Thanks for hosting–I’m coming back to read later/over the weekend, as I’m running out the door for my final day teaching at a Young Authors Conference.

I’m in at http://www.laurasalas.com/blog/for-teachers/prxn-iridescence/ with a poetryaction to THE IRIDESCENCE OF BIRDS, by Patricia MacLachlan.
on May 29, 2015 at 11:33 am | Reply Penny Parker Klostermann

I love the Poetry Friday community. It’s so full of creativity and poetry goodness 🙂
I have collaborating guests, Randi Sonenshine and son, Ethan on A Great Nephew and a Great Aunt today.
Thanks for hosting, Margaret.
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on May 29, 2015 at 11:34 am | Reply A Great Nephew and a Great Aunt-Guests Randi Sonenshine and her 11-year-old son, Ethan | Penny Parker Klostermann

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on May 29, 2015 at 12:11 pm | Reply Tabatha

Hi Margaret! I keep trying to come thank you for hosting and then getting side-tracked by clicking on someone’s post. The work that Robyn’s guest is doing is a great example of ideas growing.
Thanks for being our host today! I like “Welcome to the Poetry Friday Parade. Jump in line anytime or just stand on the side and wave. It’s all good.”
on May 29, 2015 at 12:33 pm | Reply Tricia

Hi Margaret,
Thanks for hosting this week. After a bit of time off I’m back today and sharing a poem entitle Lures by Adam Vines.
http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-friday-lures.html

Have a good weekend!
Best,
Tricia
on May 29, 2015 at 3:30 pm | Reply Karen Edmisten

How I love the Poetry Friday community, and love the way ideas spread. (I jumped in on Amy’s Try This project — such fun!) I’m in with Robinson Jeffers this week — “Wonder and Joy.” Happy Poetry Friday!
on May 29, 2015 at 4:29 pm | Reply jsquiresbooks

My selection is Scranimals: poems by Jack Prelutsky with pictures by Peter Sis.
on May 29, 2015 at 5:31 pm | Reply cvarsalona

Hi, Margaret. Thank you for hosting Poetry Friday. Small ideas grow amongst like-minded colleagues so thanks for starting the digipoetry march on. I am also thanking you for introducing me to Waterlogue. In its simple format, it presents an artist view of the world. Along with Canva and PicMonkey, I am able to capture what I want to say and share. For the love of poetry, let’s build a world of possibilities. I am offering the steps to my Digital Design process at http://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2015/05/digital-design.html. See you online.
on May 30, 2015 at 2:41 am | Reply Ramona

Margaret, thanks for hosting. I’m sharing a book of animal poems by Maxine Kumin today. Posting late after spending the day in an elementary school library. Hats off to librarians who interact with so many classes in a single day!
http://pleasuresfromthepage.blogspot.com/2015/05/poetry-friday_29.html
on May 30, 2015 at 10:13 am | Reply Julie Larios

Hi, Margaret – I’ve been hit-and-miss with posts for Poetry Friday lately, but this week at The Drift Record I’m posting a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson to complement my good friend Julie Paschkis’s post about shadows over at Books Around the Table (link at The Drift Record will take you to BATT.) Here’s The Drift Record: http://julielarios.blogspot.com/2015/05/heres-little-poem-by-robert-louis.html
on May 30, 2015 at 2:15 pm | Reply Taking Care of Myself | Reflections on the Teche

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