Welcome to the Brave Writer Podcast. I'm Julie Bogart.

Thank you for joining me today on this special edition of the Poetry Tea Time

podcast that we share through the Brave Writer Podcast channel. Today we had the pleasure of

interviewing Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. Well very nice to meet you Janet and

Sylvia. Thanks for joining me today to talk about poetry, our passion.

Yeah, thank you. I know it was difficult figuring out all of our schedules, so thanks for

working with us. I didn't have a chance to see your actual book

but I looked at all of the information about it. What I would like to start with is if you could

tell me about poetry. I had heard about this from Amy Ludwig

Vanderwater and then I found out you're the creators of that is that your idea?

No we can't take credit for the whole Poetry Friday concept.

Oh, that started 10 years ago with another blogger actually who encouraged people to pause for poetry every Friday with some kind of a post on their blogs.

And I've been doing that as a blogger ever since, but Janet and I grabbed a hold of that idea for our print anthologies because we felt that it was really fun on the internet,

but that teachers and librarians and families might be more inclined to pause for poetry on Friday

when things are a little more relaxed and people are open to trying something

different for a few minutes and so that seems to really caught on in the classroom and library world too. Oh that's

wonderful. Yeah in homeschool we picked Tuesdays as our day for poetry mostly because of

alliteration

to see tea time.

So poetry with tea, but I love that.

That makes a lot of sense.

And so that's really caught on.

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