Traveling by Poem with Reading Road Trip Friends

April is National Poetry Month, and it's time for Lafayette students to find a just-right poem: to write an original poem, to perform a fantastic poem, or to share a favorite poem with family and friends. Reading Road Trip joins the celebration with a suitcase full of beautiful haiku and bouncy limericks, long poems and short poems, silly poems and serious poems, slamming poems and jamming poems... thirty wild and wonderful days of word play and imagery, similes and metaphors, rhythm and rhyme!

Go by yourself or invite a good friend,

But traveling by poem is what I recommend. --J. Patrick Lewis 

Many of our poems connect to Reading Road Trip titles and will appear in blog posts about the books.  Other poems will be posted at our world-famous Poetry on Parade blog site. And some of our poems will appear right here, but in classic Reading Road Trip style, they'll be all over the map!


Our first poem, from A World of Wonders: Geographic Travels in Verse and Rhyme by J. Patrick Lewis, explores an adventurous attitude at very high altitude.  Pack your parkas and gather up your mountain gear! Duncan C. is performing poetry On Top of the World: