Kids' poetry. Under pressure.
"The biggest tournament of children’s poetry ever conceived"
KENN NESBITT, 2013-2015 U.S. CHILDREN'S POET LAUREATE AND 2012 MADNESS! POETRY AUTHLETE
1,000's of Kids
Students from around the globe read, discuss, and vote together
64 Authletes
Writers battle head-to-head for six rounds of poetry madness
126 Poems
We publish the equivalent of one new "big book" of kids poems
1 Big Party
We banter, taunt, cheer, argue, lose, laugh ... and love every minute of it
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(And just about every kids' poetry blog in existence)
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