Poetry Month

 {Portrait of girl seated at window with book}

I doubt many readers will take the time to check out these poems, but they are all really quite good. In celebration of National Poetry month, I share these:

• Little Stones at My Window
• Starfish and Small Talk
• Tom Waits reading Buckowski's The Laughing Heart.
• Friend Aaron Belz writes magnificent, and often funny poetry. (See The Love Hat Relationship.) His Twitter posts never fail to make me laugh. 
• In a wonderful Caroline Kennedy interview, she talks about her new poetry anthology and shares a family tradition that required she and her brother to select a poem every year for their mother's birthday. Jackie kept all of these handwritten poems in a scrapbook. I think this is a lovely way to inspire a love of poetry and language in children.