The Kidlitosphere is celebrating during National Poetry Month.

GottaBook announces, 30 Poets/30 Days! http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2009/03/announcing-30-poets30-days.html
Gregory K. Pincus is the originator of Fib poetry.
Every day in April,he will be posting a previously unpublished poem by a different poet. Here's the alphabetical list of who's participating:

Arnold Adoff, Jaime Adoff, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Douglas Florian, Betsy Franco, Kristine O'Connell George, Charles Ghigna, Nikki Giovanni, Joan Bransfield Graham, Nikki Grimes, Avis Harley, Mary Ann Hoberman, Lee Bennett Hopkins, X. J. Kennedy, Bruce Lansky, Julie Larios, J. Patrick Lewis, Pat Mora, Kenn Nesbitt, Linda Sue Park, Ann Whitford Paul, Gregory K. Pincus, Jack Prelutsky, Adam Rex, Jon Scieszka, Joyce Sidman, Marilyn Singer, April Halprin Wayland, Janet Wong, and Jane Yolen.

It will launch on Tuesday, April 1, with former Children's Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky's new “A Little Poem For Poetry Month.” We’ll end April 30th with “Books & Me” by Pat Mora to help celebrate El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day). And every day in between will bring something new. You can follow along here and via 30poets30days on Twitter."



Also, at Miss Rumphius Effect, http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/, Tricia Stohr-Hunt will be featuring Poetry Makers, interviews with a spectacular group of children's poets.

April 1. Kenn Nesbitt
April 2. Rebecca Kai Dotlich
April 3. Avis Harley / Ann Whitford Paul
April 4. Joyce Carol Thomas
April 5. J. Patrick Lewis
April 6. Janet Wong
April 7. Joseph Bruchac
April 8. Ralph Fletcher / Steven Schnur
April 9. Jane Yolen
April 10. Linda Ashman / Julie Larios
April 11. Adam Rex
April 12. Marilyn Singer
April 13. Lee Bennett Hopkins
April 14. Georgia Heard
April 15. Joyce Sidman
April 16. Paul Janeczko
April 17. Arnold Adoff / Jaime Adoff
April 18. Joan Bransfield Graham
April 19. Bobbi Katz
April 20. Kristine O’Connell George
April 21. Jorge Argueta
April 22. Carole Boston Weatherford
April 23. Betsy Franco
April 24. Lisa Westberg Peters / Laura Purdie Salas
April 25. Calef Brown
April 26. Marilyn Nelson
April 27. Helen Frost / Sara Holbrook
April 28. Douglas Florian
April 29. Mary Ann Hoberman
April 30. Pat Mora



Also, Sylvia Vardell at Poetry For Children, http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/, will be reviewing a new children's poetry book every day;



Anastasia Suen at her new Pencil Talk blog, http://penciltalk.wordpress.com/, invites K-12 students to write their own school poems and send them in to be posted.



Elaine Magliaro will be giving away children's poetry books as prizes during National Poetry Month again this year at Wild Rose Reader. She will also be giving away books of light verse during April at her new blog Political Verses (http://politicalverses.blogspot.com)