Poetry Friday – Yikes I’m Hosting!


It’s been a tremendously busy week for me and an exciting one. I’ve interviewed Ana Castillo (what an amazing lady she is), I’ve been researching illustrators, preparing for the Cybils, talking my nice boss into giving Dana-Farber free banner advertising and picking out safe new car seats for my grandkids along with my everyday work madness. I almost clean forgot Poetry Friday which would have been terrible since (gulp) I’m hosting and rounding up.

In honor of Ana Castillo and Poetry Friday – here is the link to her speaking her seminal poem – Women Don’t Riot from her book I Ask the Impossible.

Women Don’t Riot

I hope I figured out Mr. Linky. I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with for my first hosting Poetry Friday.

Please leave a comment after dropping your poem off with Mr. Linky. Happy Poetry Friday everyone!

Author: Gina Ruiz

Gina Ruiz is a writer and reviewer living in Los Angeles. She writes about bookish events, books and graphic novels. She is especially interested in the following genres: Chicano, poetry, literature, fiction, mystery, comics, graphic novels, sci-fi, children's literature, non-fiction, historical fiction, literary fiction. She does not review religious literature, self-help, political or self-published books.

37 thoughts on “Poetry Friday – Yikes I’m Hosting!

  1. Thank you for posting. I’m in with a Robert Louis Stevenson Poem entitled “The Swing.”

    Please stop by my blog to submit a picture book, that can be used as a mentor text, before 10/5 please! THANKS!

  2. Hi Ana,
    Thanks for rounding us up today. My post today is a review of a talk given by author John Green. I’ve included some of the poems he quoted.
    Regards,
    Tricia

  3. Oops, sorry my entries are so long! I’m in at http://laurasalas.livejournal.com/ with my weekly 15 Words or Less poems. Come check out the photo and add your own poem in the comments! And in a separate post, I shared an original poem in progress about my greatest fear: something happening to one of my kids.

    Thanks for hosting!

  4. Thanks for doing the Poetry Friday Roundup this week. At Wild Rose Reader, my poetry has turned to thoughts of fall. I have two poems about autumn fires–one by Robert Louis Stevenson and an original by me.

  5. Thank you for taking time to round us all up this week. I’ve posted “Face It” by Janet Wong in honor of her birthday on Sunday.

  6. Another wonderful poem, Gina. I’m in with something from Sam Beam the man behind the band Iron & Wine.

    I am sharing your poem with my wife, who is a high school teacher I suspect she will be sharing it with her 170 or so students today.

  7. I am in today with three poems from Burma, and links to a site where you can read poem after poem from the people working against the dictatorship.

    thanks for hosting!

  8. Thanks for hosting! I’m in with an original song called “Swampland Lullaby,” set to the tune of “Toora Loora Looral (That’s an Irish Lullaby)”.

  9. Better late than never! Is he a poet, and artist or just a pretty face? I’m in with Viggo Mortensen this week.

    Thanks for hosting, Gina!

  10. Thanks for hosting. My class is still deep into learning about monarch migration, so here’s one by favorite children’s poet Douglas Florian.

  11. Howdy! Thanks for hosting. Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast is in with a Wallace Stevens poem.

    I love your banner, btw. Very very pretty!

  12. Hi, I’m finally accepting the fact that I read and enjoy poetry, with a review of some poetry for children by John Updike.

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