Edition 52: Poetry

National Poetry Month

It’s a banner week at the Carnival, with two of our hosts posting almost back to back –or more accurately, me managing to post their round-up twice in one week.

Rebecca brought together more than a dozen entries on the subject of poetry, ranging from children’s, to romantic, to a teachers’ guide, to zombie haiku (hey, somebody had to do it, right?). If that just isn’t enough for you, check out her link to Savvy Verse and Wit’s month long Poetry event — there’s a cornucopia of linky goodness for you there.

This edition contains really a wonderful variety of surprising angles to the topic of poetry, and even for the poetry-challenged among us¹, it’s engrossing. One thing you have to admit about poetry as a topic: it tends to reveal very personal insights about the person discussing it², which makes for great reading.

So a big thanks to Rebecca for classing up the joint³ with a topic that, perhaps more than any other, indulges a bookworm’s love of words, in all their beauty and power.

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Did you miss your chance to submit to this carnival? Here are the next couple topics coming up:

Edition 53 hosted by: Nicola (yep, that’s me!) at Alpha Heroes
Deadline for submission: May 7, 2010
Theme: Arthurian Fiction
To submit a post, email: nicola327 AT hotmail DOT com

Edition 54 hosted by: Ariel at Mystery Suspense
Deadline for submission: May 21, 2010
Theme: Mystery/Suspense/Crime Fiction
To submit a post, email: ariel_heart AT msn DOT com

Remember, you can always check the “upcoming editions” tab if you need a longer planning horizon, and we have openings for your choice of themes, too.

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¹ Most of my forays into poetry involved iambic pentameter and the word “Nantucket“
² Oops.
³ Not meant to imply any lack of class on the part of any other carnivals. Just, you know. Poetry is for the REALLY EXTRA classy

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