30 Poets/30 Days is a celebration of children's poetry taking place at GottaBook during National Poetry Month in April 2009. From Greg Pincus' announcement post: Every day in April, I'll be posting a previously unpublished poem by a different poet.... We'll launch on Tuesday, April 1, with former Children's Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky's new “A Little Poem For Poetry Month.” We’ll end April 30th with “Books & Me” by Pat Mora to help celebrate El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children's Day/Book Day). And every day in between will bring something new. You can follow along here and via 30poets30days on Twitter. 30 Poets/30 Days is also part of a project to use Twitter to bring together the children's literature ("kidlit") and poetry communities. Greg's Twitter, #poetry, and #kidlit ... and an invitation and #poetry!, and Just One More Book's podcast have more. For an overview of the strategy, see What rhymes with Skittles? These pages discuss both the overall "kidlit and poetry on Twitter" project, and the promotion of 30 Poets/30 Days.

To follow along

Via Twitter

The easiest way to keep up with everything that's going on is using Twitter search. Try one of the following links:

• all discussions about #poetry, #kidlit, and National Poetry Month
• discussions about #kidlit
• discussions about #poetry
• discussions about National Poetry Month (#NPM, #poetrymonth and NaPoMo)
  
• discussions about #kidlit #poetry
  
• discussions about 30 Poets/30 Days

Also, you can check out the Tweeting points here

In the blogosphere

... link out to various blogs ...

Goals

Goals

• establish a community of poetry-lovers on Twitter using the #poetry hashtag
• working with the bloggers of the Kidlitosphere, establish a community of people interested in children's literature on Twitter using the #kidlit hashtag
• have fun talking about a subject we're passionate about -- and meet some new people along the way
• broaden awareness of poetry, the Kidlitosphere, National Poetry month and all the great projects associated with it -- including 30 Poets/30 Days