Welcome to Poetry Friday!
Q. What is Poetry Friday?
A. Poetry Friday is a poetry blog post roundup.
In June 2007, blogger Susan Thomsen at Chicken Spaghetti explained it in her essay for the Poetry Foundation, Thank Goodness It’s (Poetry) Friday.
A welcoming and diverse community, a core of perhaps 35 bloggers, has coalesced around the poetry sharing, with more joining all the time. Each week, one regular or another volunteers to round up links to all the posts so that participants are listed in one spot.
Mary Lee Hahn, the current manager of Poetry Friday, sums it up:
What is the Poetry Friday roundup?
A gathering of links to posts featuring original or shared poems, or reviews of poetry books.
And now for the poems . . .
Writing a Small Poem
What is the story? Thirty years ago, after our first snow of the year, as seen in this photo by Chandler Cruttenden, I slip-slided my way down the icy driveway to our mailbox — and found my first acceptance letter! A new poetry magazine wanted to publish my poem!
A 1998 news article in the Greensboro News & Record shares the publisher’s origin story: “A North Carolina couple, Jack Nestor and Arlene Furman, have hit upon a great way to entertain and educate young children. Four years ago the Carrboro couple began publishing Shoofly, a quarterly audiomagazine for children ages 3 to 7. Each cassette features 45 to 60 minutes of stories, lively poetry and songs sure to delight young listeners.”
My poem was written on an MS-DOS word processor and published on a cassette tape — and neither of those technological advances are in use today. Things have changed a lot in the last thirty years. 🙂
Now it’s your turn! Share a link to YOUR poem below:
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