We’ve been sharing poetry here every Friday since Alphabet Soup launched in 2007. The Poetry Friday community is simply the best — friendly, supportive, and inspiring (everyone is welcome to join in the fun). Learn more about Poetry Friday here.

Over the years, I’ve shared poems by many of my fave poets (E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, Edwin Romond), interviewed poets for adults and children (Barbara Crooker, Andrea Potos, Penny Harter, Patricia Toht, Jorge Argueta), as well as reviewed lots of children’s poetry picture books and anthologies + picture books written in rhyme.

Here’s something to whet your appetite:

A LITTLE SAMPLER OF POETRY FRIDAY POSTS

[poem + recipe] Swoon and Croon for Macaroons

[review] Rumi: Poet of Joy and Love by Rashin Kheiriyeh

a sampler of poems from Marrow of Summer by Andrea Potos

Barbara Crooker on The Book of Kells

“The Year I Lived Across the Street from a 24-hour Dunkin’ Donuts” by Edwin Romond

“Ode to Left-Handedness” by Gregory Orr

[review] Betty and the Mysterious Visitor by Anne Twist and Emily Sutton

“Why I Have a Crush on You, UPS Man” by Alice N. Persons

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POETRY FRIDAY YEARLY ARCHIVES (On average 40 posts per year)

2024 (Dorianne Laux, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Richard Jones, Joni Mitchell)

2023 (Wendy Cope, Julia Donaldson, Linda Ashman, Kate Coombs)

2022 (A.A. Milne, Carol Ann Duffy, Roger McGough, Joy Harjo)

2021 (Nikki Giovanni, Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch, Billy Collins)

2020 (Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, Marjorie Maddox, Diane Ackerman)

2019 (Janet Wong, Naomi Shihab Nye, Charles Ghigna, Maya Angelou)

2018 (Stephen Dobyns, Ellen Bass, Alberto Rios, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater)

2017 (Pat Schneider, Marge Piercy, Jorge Argueta, T.S. Eliot)

2016 (Irene Latham, Adele Kenny, Laura Shovan, Leslea Newman)

2015 (Mark Strand, Christina Rossetti, Kathi Appelt, Kate Hosford)

2014 (Jessica Swaim, Hayden Saunier, Diane DeCillis, Kahlil Gibran)

2013 (Langston Hughes, Robert Bly, Elizabeth Alexander, Francisco X. Alarcon)

2012 (James Tate, Tony Hoagland, Marilyn Singer, Diane Lockward)

2011 (Jane Yolen, Ogden Nash, Jane Austen, Basho)

2010 (Taylor Mali, Susan Rich, Douglas Florian, Julie Larios)

2009 (James Tate, Sharon Olds, Sara Teasdale, Arlo Guthrie)

2008 (Ted Kooser, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Carl Sandburg, Cathy Song)

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