Wow! It’s January 30th! We get to host the Poetry Friday Round-Up today!
That would have been a great introduction had I remembered that I was hosting the Poetry Friday Round-Up today. Totally spaced this opportunity (oh. . .what you must think of me). But really, what happens here is that I didn’t get the opportunity to have that week-long anticipation of what I might write here or how I might invite the community of poets into a poetic place.
And then I remembered. . .we are already here, aren’t we? We’ve been thinking poetically long before it was my turn to host Poetry Friday. This is the gift of poetry whether we remember that we are the featured reader or the host of the poems for a particular day (this is my attempt to let myself off the hook. . .perhaps I should have used a hook as my image).
Two weeks ago, I stayed home with Maddie (12.5) who was not feeling well. It was Maddie who was under the weather, but taking a little time to surf TED.com, I found an opportunity for us to experience being under the “infinite blue.”
The spirit of These 4 Corners is not to build a confining space but rather to create an opportunity to think about Loving. . .Living. . .Laughing. . .and Learning (the L’s become the “corners” which Donald Graves might have suggested as “framing corners” that could be adjusted as needed within a lesson or an approach) as we go about our daily work, whatever that work me be. It is my hope that you may see one or more of the 4 Corners in our share today.
We have been sharing Cristina Domenech’s “Poetry That Frees the Soul” in Room 407 this week, and I would love to share this message and this poem with you. I would love to hear your comments on the message today–or at some point. This is one of the few TED talks that just really sticks with me and it will probably be a staple within my learning community for years to come. The video is just over twelve minutes, but it is a very good message with an incredible pay-off at the end. I think I would like to end the post with this and include my poem for the day in the comments along with all of you:
Hi, Paul – I’m always glad to see a link go up for a Ted Talk, so thanks for the heads-up about this one. Over at the Drift Record today, I sing the praise of several poetry books that are being mentioned for awards on Monday, when the ALA Youth Media Awards are announced. The link to my post is http://julielarios.blogspot.com/2015/01/poetry-friday-awards-season.html
Hope you will be rounding the links up for everyone later today.
I’ll have to come back later to enjoy the TED Talk. Your recommendations NEVER disappoint!
I’ve got a poem by Kay Ryan that really tells it like it is for me these days:
http://readingyear.blogspot.com/2015/01/poetry-friday-best-of-it.html
Thanks for hosting us!
Hi Paul, it’s great to connect with you via Facebook, and thanks for hosting this week’s Poetry Friday. My contribution this week is the fleeting sparkles in “Firefly July.” Here’s the link:
http://gatheringbooks.org/2015/01/30/poetry-friday-fleeting-sparkles-in-firefly-july/
I was about to share this TED Talk a few weeks from now, but you beat me to it! 🙂
Thanks for the ted link – will head over and check it out. I’ve had a busy week this week but on an early morning walk, a little poem that I remembered from years ago came back to me, so I’m sharing it at: http://sallymurphy.com.au/2015/01/poetry-friday-a-happy-poem/
Good morning, Paul! Looking forward to coming back to take all this goodness in. I’m ruminating today on rhyme, meter and my OLW, which is REVISE.
http://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2015/01/revision-ii.html
Hi, Paul. My favorite Ted talk combines Shakespeare and modern rap. I’ll check this one out.
Author Amok’s annual poetry project starts on Sunday, February 1. This year, everyone is invited to write each day in response to a sound clip. The point of the project isn’t perfection, but to exercise those writing muscles! http://authoramok.blogspot.com/2015/01/author-amoks-2015-sound-poem-project.html
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the TED talk link! Will check it out today. 🙂
Over at Alphabet Soup, I’m all about Paddington Bear with a poem and a recipe for bread and butter pudding with marmalade:
http://jamarattigan.com/2015/01/30/friday-feast-the-bear-in-the-window-and-paddingtons-bread-and-butter-pudding-with-marmalade-2/
Thanks so much for hosting today!
Hi Paul, thank you for hosting today! I just happened to watch that TED talk yesterday– one of the best I’ve seen. I’m so glad you’re giving it more exposure today. Also thank you for introducing me to your blog and the “4 L’s”. I’m delighted that my post today touches on all of those L’s! At Today’s Little Ditty, it’s the end-of-month wrap-up for Joyce Sidman’s DMC Challenge. Please come celebrate the variety of deeper wisdom I have to share today! http://michellehbarnes.blogspot.com/2015/01/january-dmc-wrap-up-giveaway.html
I had to laugh at your post this morning because I checked your site multiple times last night. I was worried that you forgot. “Should I message him?” Glad you remembered and wrote such a welcoming invitation for us.
My students learned about cats on Wonderopolis and wrote cat poems after Patricia Maclachlan. https://reflectionsontheteche.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/cat-talk/
Hi Paul, Like Margaret, I wondered…but it’s all good. Love your smooth-talking way of making it all seem like it was just meant to be that way! I do love the four Ls as a framework, by the way. And
Thank you for the TED talk recommendation. I’ll bookmark it to watch this w/e.
I’m in with a poetryaction to IVAN: THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA, a book that totally embodies your four Ls! It inspired a short poem in me: http://www.laurasalas.com/blog/for-teachers/prxn-ivan/
Thanks for hosting!
http://thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com/2015/01/poetry-friday-cats-sleep-anywhere.html Thanks for hosting! Here’s my Eleanor Farjeon poem for today. I am looking forward to coming back after work and reading everyone else’s posts!
Hi Paul,
Thanks for hosting! I have a Deeper Wisdom poem today:
http://tabathayeatts.blogspot.com/2015/01/what-do-icicles-know.html
Thanks for hosting today, Paul! I’m sharing a poem by Poetry Friday’s own Laura Shovan:
https://ateachinglifedotcom.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/poetry-friday-after-the-blizzard-by-laura-shovan/
Thank you, Paul! Way to pull it off at the last minute. 🙂 Yes, Poetry is with us always, isn’t it? Poetry is life, life is poetry… oh, you see the happy mood I am in this morning. 🙂 I’ve got selections from ANIMAL VEGETABLE MINERAL, edited by Myra Cohn Livingston. http://www.irenelatham.blogspot.com/2015/01/animal-vegetable-mineral-poems-about.html
Hello, Paul: Thank you for hosting this week. Situational irony is the theme of my entry where teachers use a worksheet to analyze the figurative elements in a poem by the popular Billy Collins. Of course, that is exactly the problem his poem addresses, hence the irony! http://usedbooksinclass.com/2015/01/30/poetry-friday-situational-irony-and-apology-to-billy-collins/
Hi Paul, & thank you! I’m also thanking other Poetry Friday people who keep me writing in the midst of my busy teaching life, & one poem I wrote in response to one prompt. http://www.teacherdance.org/2015/01/poetry-friday-wishes.html Thanks for the Ted Talk. I enjoyed your explanation of the “Four Corners”.
Wonderful. We love sharing Billy Collins’s TED talk in Room 407. His comments on poetry and animation are priceless. I think we have just about every Collins title in the room available for check-out. Young Adult readers who pick up on Collins seem to like his “voice,” and whey they see him on the screen, I think they really like his droll snark.
Last minute. Last dance. . .last chance. . .But here we are. And. . .I actually got that post up before 5:30AM (the rest was just self-disclosure ((wink)).
It’s so nice to see you here, Tara. I love hosting the Round-Up for the number of friends who stop by to share.
Thank you, Tabatha. I know I could always use a shot of wisdom. Do they have wisdom that comes in a candy-coated tablet?
Me too. . .I am out of the classroom and the building today as I assist the US History students as they view SELMA at the local theater. This might help to shape my own poem later on today.
It’s good. . .g-o-o-o-o-d. One of my favorite things about working with the Ls is that they create natural corners that need not be confining. So. . .instead of stanDARDs, I can create stanZAs (a “little room” to stretch out and to grow).
YES!!! I am a Wonder Lead with Wonderopolis so I always love when a friend discovers the rich resource that this site is and can be for young learners! Do you know the Betsy Franco book on cats?
I’m just going to keep on showing it until it hits with somebody. Actually, I saw a young lady in the room look to be very moved by the sentiment of the piece yesterday afternoon.
Marmalade. . .I just love that word. I’ll bet the person that coined that word must have been a warm-hearted, fun-loving person. I’ll have to research this later.
Thank you, Laura, for the share today. This reminds me of the Flocabulary resources that link Shakespeare to hip-hop culture.
So good to see you here, Heidi. I was just shelving your books in Room 407 the other day!
Thanks, Paul. I don’t make it to the party often but this week we did have some fun on my blog when I introduced COUPLINKS. Maybe other readers here will decide to have a few laughs with the same exercise.
https://davidlharrison.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/introducing-couplinks .
Poems are like little walks, aren’t they? Thank you for sharing this one, Sally!
YES!!! Love FIREFLY JULY. I have just about all of Melissa Sweet’s illustrated books in Room 407!
Mary Lee: You must know that I thought of you as I watched this the very first time. And each time that I have watched it since.
If the weather comes in the way we think it will, I may be watching the ALA Youth Media Awards from my stripy chair at Hankins Ranch. But I am very excited to hear this year’s award winners.
Hi Paul, I enjoyed your post and the TED talk and I like your four corners. I’m in this week with books for the grandchildren.
http://www.dorireads.blogspot.com/2015/01/birthday-books-1.html
Paul, thank you for hosting Poetry Friday today. It is snowing again this morning which brings me to the point that my offering is a reflection of snowstorm 2015 that has brought blankets of snow to Long Island. My thoughts and original poems about this extreme weather condition that closed schools and canceled my professional development sessions is at http://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2015/01/continue-chronicle.html. I will be sure to come back after my yoga practice to listen to the Ted Talk (LISTEN is my OLW).
Hi Paul! Thanks for hosting & sharing the link — I hope to watch during my lunch break! I’m in today with a poem inspired by some friends who are near the war zone in Ukraine, working to adopt a daughter. http://kerirecommends.com/2015/01/poetry-friday-todays-math-problem/
Hi Paul! I’m getting an error message so please feel free to remove any duplicate posts, but just to be sure, here is my link for today: http://kerirecommends.com/2015/01/poetry-friday-todays-math-problem/
I wrote a poem inspired by some friends who are in Ukraine trying to adopt.
Hi Paul:
Thank you for hosting Poetry Friday this week, and congratulations on your 1st publication. I have no doubt it will be the 1st of many.
After a blogging respite, I’m back with a blog over at Poetry Time:
http://www.charleswaterspoetry.com/#!POETRY-TIME-BLOG-20/c23vc/EC953D30-4630-4932-9F36-E48D614FCC28
I LOVE me some Ted talk! 🙂
I wrote a haiku dedicated to the blizzard that really wasn’t, but was. That’s my mumbo jumbo.
Here’s my link. Thanks for hosting. http://robyn-campbell.blogspot.com/2015/01/poetry-friday_30.html
I’m happy to be back to Poetry Friday after several distracting months. This is the place to be as I’m anticipating the second year of writing a poem a day in February. I’ve posted about this and shared my last poem from last February, called “February 28.” http://karinfisher-golton.com/2015/01/29/a-poem-a-day-for-february/
Thank you for hosting, Paul! I love the four corners idea and look forward to the TED talk and exploring poetry after I get my boy to school in California.
Hello, Paul. I haven’t participated for a few months, so I don’t believe we’ve “met.” I’ve been reading your Wonderopolis posts and loved the post describing your students’ work with Of Mice and Men. Thanks for hosting today. I’ll be listening to the TED talk a bit later. I’m sharing Diane Mayr’s Winter Poem Swap gift today – just right for the snowy day we were told to expect in NH! Here’s the link. http://joyceray.blogspot.com
Hi, Paul! I love your intro…it teaches me, once again, that you and I are human…like everyone else! I look forward to watching the TED talk…as if were a dessert I’ll treat myself to after work.
At TeachingAuthors, we’re talking about the worldwide launch of Beautiful Oops Day, based on Barney Saltzberg’s amazing lift-the-flap book for ALL ages, BEAUTIFUL OOPS!…and how we turn mistakes into masterpieces.
Included on this post is a poem by author Bruce Balan and the mistake which inspired it.
http://www.teachingauthors.com/2015/01/beautiful-oops-day-mistakes-into.html
Thank you for hosting, Paul, and sharing that incredible TED Talk – wow!
Today I have a little football action with my poem, “Ode to the Super Bowl”: http://weewordsforweeones.blogspot.com/2015/01/ode-to-super-bowl_30.html
Go Packers! (there’s always next year…)
Thank you for hosting the poetry roundup today! I posted Emily Dickinson’s words at my blog, Bildungsroman:
http://slayground.livejournal.com/800152.html
Thank you for sharing that TED talk. So moving. I have winter poems from Mr. Y’s fourth graders: https://maclibrary.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/poetry-friday-winter-poems-by-fourth-grade-students/
Thanks for hosting.
My selection is ” Hope Through Heartsongs” written and illustrated by Mattie J.T. Stepanek.
Hey Paul,
Thanks for hosting us today. I’m sleeping over at my blog http://www.poetryforkidsjoy.blogspot.com I have a poem up titled DREAMS and a poetry prompt for kids.
Thanks for hosting, Paul! I hope to check out that video later tonight…sounds interesting! I’ve been tied up all day with kids and errands and didn’t have time to stop by earlier…but wanted to share my post about snow, Rod McKuen, and the upcoming Poetry Fray Anthology for Celebrations: https://mattforrest.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/poetry-friday-what-the-snow-clouds-know-rod-mckuen/
Paul – Thank you for having us in your corner…and for always being in all of our corners. You are a gift here online.
Over at The Poem Farm (finally…Internet was down!) I have a poem for some new South Australian friends and a wonderful Poetry Peek with young Emma from Washington state.
http://www.poemfarm.amylv.com/2015/01/ducks-requests-poetry-peek-with-emma.html
That was a brilliant TED talk. Wouldn’t it be great if that program would run in every prison. Thanks for hosting. I have a concrete poem and book to share today http://www.catherinemjohnson.com/?p=8359
Hi Paul!
Thanks for hosting this shindig. I’m in today with a poem entitled A January Dandelion.
http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/2015/01/poetry-friday-january-dandelion.html
Have a great weekend.
Tricia