Kidlit Progressive Poem 2025 and Poetry Friday Catch Up Featuring TWU Poetry Videos

I have today's Kidlit Progressive Poetry line.  I hope you'll indulge me as I share my Texas Women's University Poetry Video links.  Allergies caught up with me on Friday thus delaying a poem

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This year for the midterm project, I took some poems from poetry friends as well as working with Heidi Bee Roemer who has a most excellent Steamed Power Poetry Contest.  Students selected from a variety of poems. They are encouraged to submit the poems to the contest but that is optional.  Here are the first five of ten poems.  Enjoy.

Mariana V.: At The Pet Shop by Heidi Bee Roemer. 
Clarissa R.:Welcome to the Science Lab by Heidi Bee Roemer
Sierra B.: Name That Seed! by Heidi Bee Roemer
Aisha L.: Ode to the Washing Machine by Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Victoria T.: My New Remote by Ken Nesbitt Note: The static audio at the beginning is intentional.

Kidlit Progressive Poem 2025: It's 13th Year

​I think I may have participated in the annual progressive poem every year. Irene Latham began the tradition in 2012 and hosted until 2019. (Early archives here.)  Margaret Simon stepped in and has been hosting since 2020. (Recent archives are tabs at the top of her page.)
The rules:
The poem passes from blog to blog 
Each poet-blogger adds a line. 
The poem is for children. 
Other than that, anything goes.
Each blogger will copy the previous line exactly as written (unless permission from the previous poet is obtained) and add their line, offering commentary on their process if they wish.

This year  Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewisel wrote the beginning line and yesterday Buffy Silverman at http://www.buffysilverman.com/blog  left me a line which instantly made me think of my deck with the Downy woodpeckers and hummingbirds.

Open an April window
let sunlight paint the air
stippling every dogwood
dappling daffodils with flair
Race to the garden
where woodpeckers drum
as hummingbirds thrum

Now it travels to Janice Scully at Salt City Verse.  
April 1 Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewise
April 2 Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect
April 3 Robyn at Life on the Deckle Edge
April 4 Donna Smith at Mainely Write
April 5 Denise at https://mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org/
April 6 Buffy at http://www.buffysilverman.com/blog
April 7 Jone at https://www.jonerushmacculloch.com/
April 8 Janice Scully at Salt City Verse
April 9 Tabatha at https://tabathayeatts.blogspot.com/
April 10 Marcie at Marcie Flinchum Atkins
April 11 Rose at Imagine the Possibilities | Rose’s Blog
April 12 Fran Haley at Lit Bits and Pieces
April 13 Cathy Stenquist
April 14 Janet Fagel at Mainly Write
April 15 Carol Varsalona at Beyond LiteracyLink
April 16 Amy Ludwig VanDerwater at The Poem Farm
April 17 Kim Johnson at Common Threads
April 18 Margaret at Reflections on the Teche
April 19 Ramona at Pleasures from the Page
April 20 Mary Lee at A(nother) Year of Reading
April 21 Tanita at {fiction instead of lies}
April 22 Patricia Franz
April 23 Ruth at There’s No Such Thing as a Godforsaken Town
April 24 Linda Kulp Trout at http://lindakulptrout.blogspot.com
April 25 Heidi Mordhorst at My Juicy Little Universe
April 26 Michelle Kogan at: https://moreart4all.wordpress.com/
April 27 Linda Baie at Teacher Dance
April 28 Pamela Ross at Words in Flight
April 29 Diane Davis at Starting Again in Poetry
April 30 April Halprin Wayland at Teaching Authors

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