April is National Poetry Month. Each year the #kidlit poetry community writes a progressive poem. The idea originated from Irene Latham. Each day the poem travels to a different blog, and the poet adds a new line to the poem. Past poems can be seen here.
If you’d like to participate in this year’s progressive poem, please comment on this post with your date choice and blog URL link. Come back to this post to copy and paste the schedule into your blog post. Feel free to email me if you have any questions.
April 1 Tabatha Yeatts at The Opposite of Indifference
April 2 Cathy Stenquist at A Little Bit of This and That
April 3 Patricia Franz at Reverie
April 4 Donna Smith at Mainely Write
April 5 Janice Scully at Salt City Verse
April 6 Denise Krebs at Dare to Care
April 7 Ruth Hersey at There is no such thing as a God-forsaken town
April 8 Rose Cappelli at Imagine the Possibilities
April 9 Margaret Simon at Reflections on the Teche
April 10 Janet Clare Fagel at Reflections on the Teche
April 11 Diane Davis at Starting Again in Poetry
April 12 Linda Baie at Teacher Dance
April 13 Linda Mitchell at Another Word Edgewise
April 14 Jone MacCulloch at Poetry Rocks
April 15 Joyce Uglow at Storied Ink
April 16 Carol Varsalona at Beyond Literacy Link
April 17 Robyn Hood Black at Life on the Deckle Edge
April 18 Michele Kogan at More Art for All
April 19 Kim Johnson at Common Threads
April 20 Buffy Silverman
April 21 Irene Latham at Live Your Poem
April 22 Karen Edmisten
April 23 Heidi Mordhorst at my juicy little universe
April 24 Mary Lee Hahn at A(nother) Year of Reading
April 25 Tanita Davis at Fiction, instead of Lies
April 26 Sharon Roy at Pedaling Poet
April 27 Tracey Kiff-Judson at Tangles and Tails
April 28
April 29
April 30
Reflections on the Teche 
April 10 and I will need a friend to let me post on their Blog, since I am blogless, but would really like to participate again. Please find me here or on FB at Janet Clare PM to let me know if you would be so kind to host me this April.
I have been spending time writing grants of late and have limited time for my poetry. I am also looking into finally getting my chap book (to include poems for kids and adults) published and writing about the classroom poetry program I developed and used so successfully. I miss being involved in Poetry Friday but want all of you to know I read when I can and applaud all of your devotion and hard and interesting work.
Janet F.
Janet, I can host you here.
Thank you so much, Margaret!!
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April 19 or 26 would work for me, and I would love to!
I’d love to do this again. Any date but Sundays will do.
Please leave me a blog link.
dianemdavis.wordpress.com
April 8 or 13 please, Margaret. Imagine the Possibilities | Rose’s Blog
Thanks!
Hi Margaret, may I have April 18th if available? Thanks for gathering us again, looking forward to it!
Is April 4 still open? I’d take that one…or any really.
https://mainelywrite.blogspot.com
Donna
I’d like April 12th, please, Margaret! https://www.teacherdance.org
Hi Margaret! I am pretty flexible. You can put me at the beginning or end or smackdab in the middle.
I would love to be part of this again. Any day is fine.
Margaret, I can take April 3rd if it’s still open.
I’ll take April 24th.
oops — https://ayearofreading.org/
Lucky 13 for me! Thank you, so much for hosting!
Can you send me a URL link? Thanks.
April 13th. Ooops on the link. Sorry about that.
Linda M. Another Word Edgewise
https://mitchellhubeimom.substack.com/
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Hi Margaret,
Thanks for organizing us. I’d like April 25.
tanita🌞davis
{fiction, instead of lies}
http://tanitasdavis.com/blog
Margaret, I would love to participate. I could take April 13th, 14th, or 16th. Thank you.
April 14 works for me. Thanks for organizing this.
Please send me your blog URL.
Hi Margaret, thanks for hosting this again. I’ll take April 6 or 7, whichever one is available. Thanks!
Please send me your blog URL link.
Oops. Sorry, Margaret. https://mrsdkrebs.wordpress.com/
Thanks so much for organizing this, Margaret – if the 17th is available, I’ll take it! (Second choice might be 20th.) Merci!
https://www.robynhoodblack.com/blog
Margaret, if April 22 is still open, I’ll take that!
https://karenedmisten.blogspot.com
Thank you so much, Margaret! Can I take April 23, please?
https://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/
I could take Apri 20. Thanks for organizing again, Margaret. http://Www.buffysilverman.com/blog
Margaret, I’ll follow Buffy on the 21st. https://irenelatham.blogspot.com/
Margaret, I’ll follow Buffy on the 21st. https://irenelatham.blogspot.com/
Margaret, I’ll follow Buffy on the 21st. https://irenelatham.blogspot.com/
Margaret, I would love to join the fun. Feel free to put me anywhere if there is still space – except April 29 or 30, those dates terrify me!
Please send me your blog URL. Thanks!
So sorry! https://traceykj.com
Margaret,
What a lovely idea. Can I please have April 20th? Or any available date except the 21sr. Thank you for organizing this community poem!
My blog is https://pedalingpoet.wordpress.com
Thanks and take care!
I gave you April 26th. Hope that works for you.
Yes! Thanks! Just added it to my calendar.
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