Poetry Friday and I'm Hosting!

I'm happy to be hosting this week's edition of Poetry Friday. If you'll leave your link in the comments, I'll be sure to include you. I'll be updating this post throughout the day. So check back often to see what others are contributing!

For those that may be new to blogging, I just wanted to mention that EVERYONE is welcome to join in on Poetry Friday.

Kelly Fineman of Writing and Ruminating has an interview with John Grandits.
I am in with "With Hope" a song by Steven Curtis Chapman.
Chicken Spaghetti is in with "Teaching Them A Thing or Two."
Little Willow is in with a poem by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
MsMac of Check it Out is in with Photos and Poems From After School Poetry Club.
Tiel Aisha Ansari from Knocking from Inside has an original poem, "Superdelegates."
Tricia from The Miss Rumphius Effect has a poem, "Giza's Beast."
John Mutford of The Book Mine Set has an original, punctuation #1.
Stacey from Two Writing Teachers has an idea for "Building A Living Poetry Anthology."
Cloudscome of A Wrung Sponge is in was "Dear George Bush" a poem by Kristin Prevallet.
Writer2B of Findings is in with Death's Kinship--a numbered poem of Emily Dickinson and a link to Steven Curtis Chapman's Cinderella video.
Another Chapman song, "Still Listening," comes in courtesy of Ruth from There Is No Such Thing As A God-forsaken Town.
Jama from Jama Rattigan's Alphabet Soup is in with "Eatin' With Sticks."
Jenny from Read. Imagine. Talk. is in with a review of Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry by Jack Prelutsky.
The Well Read Child offers "Hungover A Line" by Wes.
Sarah Reinhard of Just Another Day of Catholic Pondering is in with "Joseph's Intended."
Laura Salas offers three poetry posts: 15 Words or Less Poems, Group Poems by 4th and 5th graders, and Individual Poems by 4th and 5th graders.
Elaine Magliaro has a review of Yuki and the One Thousand Carriers at Wild Rose Reader. And at Blue Rose Girls, she has Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est."
Shelf Elf is in with "Tree" by Jane Hirshfield
Anastasia Suen is in with "Pilot Pups."
Mother Reader is in with a review of a BACA title, Dirt On My Shirt, by Jeff Foxworthy.
Here is Sarah Miller's contribution.
Jenna from Little Acorns Treehouse is in with "The Purchase."
Liz Scanion from Liz In Ink is in with "Graded Paper" by Mark Halliday.
Karen Edmisten is in with Richard Wilbur.
Michele from Scholar's Blog is in with Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Sylvia Vardell is in with a review of The Surrender Tree.
Cheryl Rainfield is in with an original poem.
Anokaberry has a review of There Was A Man Who Loved A Rat...
Kelly from Big A little a is in with a review of The World's Greatest: Poems.
Jennie from BiblioFile is in with 2 Sonnets by Pablo Naruda.
Sheila from Greenridge Chronicles is in with a Karla Kuskin poem.
Sara is in with an original poem, "Memorial Day."