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Tag!

by Katie Bircher
Apr 19, 2011 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
As Roger reports, PoetryTagTime is a new ebook-only anthology of 30 original, interrelated poems. Each distinguished children's poet "tags" the next poet in line, connecting each poem topically (moon to sun, sun to sunflower, etc.) to the ones before and after it. The PoetryTagTime Tips blog offers ideas for sharing the poems with kids one-on-one or in a classroom setting.

The 30-poem collection is just the right length for sharing a poem a day during National Poetry Month, but with contributors including Douglas Florian, Calef Brown, Lee Bennett Hopkins, and Nikki Grimes, it's sure to be a hit with budding poets and poetry lovers any time.

And April's not over yet! For more poetry, check out Roger's post about Poem in Your Pocket for Young Poets: 100 Poems to Rip Out and Read and the recommended poetry booklist on our website.

Katie Bircher

Formerly an editor and staff reviewer for The Horn Book’s publications, Katie Bircher is currently associate agent at Sara Crowe Literary. Katie holds an MA in children’s literature from Simmons University and has over seven years of experience as an indie bookseller specializing in children’s and YA literature.

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Rebecca Kai Dotlich

>It's all been said, and so well!
It was great fun, and we all love the nod
from Horn Book. Honored to take part,
tag, and be tagged!
Rebecca

Posted : May 07, 2011 03:01

April Halprin Wayland

>Always a pleasure to dive into projects when Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell are at the helm. And what a fab project it is! If I were a dog, I'd be wagging my tail about it!

Posted : Apr 27, 2011 01:07

Carole Weatherford

>Contributing to this project was great fun. Instead of being brought kicking and screaming into the world of eBooks, I got to play tag. Thanks Sylvia & Janet.

Posted : Apr 23, 2011 11:59

Janet Wong

>Thank you, Katie! I'm glad that you liked the 30-poem length. The choice of 30 days was primarily a play-on-words choice. We'd been toying with 28 or 29 poets (for phases of the moon; originally we'd fancied a moon theme). We switched to 30 because Sylvia Vardell's first language was German, and since "Tag" means "day" in German, and there are 30 days in April . . . (I've joked with Greg Pincus of Gotta Book that soon people will think poetry can only be done in increments of 30 poets, so it's great to see "100 Poems to Rip Out and Read"!)

The PoetryTagTime project was so much fun to work on because of the camaraderie in the children's poetry community. We were lucky to have 30 poets who were willing to drop everything to write a poem within a day of being "tagged."

Posted : Apr 22, 2011 10:22

Leslie Bulion

>I loved playing "tag" too, David. It is a wonderful poetry game for any classroom, from elementary to adult, and the e-book format makes this model accessible to everyone!

Posted : Apr 21, 2011 09:52

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