#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 16)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, 32 Poems, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Amit Majmudar, Amy Lowell, Anchor & Plume, Apparatus Magazine, Bustle, Elisa Diaz Castelo, Fishouse, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indian Country, Indiana Humanities, Jo Bell, Kate Foley, Marge Piercy, Mariah Wilson, native american poetry, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Peggy Freydburg, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry and tech, poetry prompts, poetry t-shirts, QuillsEdge Press, Sylvia Plath, The Writer's Center, Theodora Goss, Tracy K Smith, Winter Tangerine, women poets

DAY SIXTEEN of the best prompts, poems and news from your  #NaPoWriMo/#NPM16/#NaPoMo /#NationalPoetryMonth/#poemaday hashtags.

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Almanac Questionaire prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Who Holds Your Hand prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Past & Present Meet prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Food Establishment prompt”
The Writer’s Center “Elevator prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Guilty Pleasure/Food prompts”
QuillsEdge Press’ “In Winter I Dream of ___ prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Field of Stars prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Farmer’s Market prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Remains prompt”
30dpc “Spring Has Sprung prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Best Dream prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Work prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Message in a Bottle prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Peggy Freydburg “Chorus of Cells”
Amit Majmudar “Recombinant Fairy Tale”
Elisa Díaz Castelo “Ode to the Radiator”
Sylvia Plath “Morning Song”
Tracy K. Smith “The Nobodies”
Amy Lowell “The Peddler of Flowers”
Theodora Goss “Swan Girls”
Aimee Nezhukumatathil “The Body”
Marge Piercy “Leftovers” (w/ commentary)

Miscellaneous

Poetry and Tech: A Happy Collision (MIT)
Poetry Made Me Do It T-shirts from Anchor& Plume
11th Century Wise-Cracking Poet Invented the Listicle As We Know It (Bustle)
Indian Country’s Native Selections for National Poetry Month Part One & Two

**Poets, if you would like to be featured in 2sDay Poems, have your collection reviewed, guest post in the Poetry Lab or blog on any of the Thoughts on Poetry topics, including Foremother Friday or Small Press Interviews, drop me a line at  bonesparkblog@yahoo.com.

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 15)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 32 Poems, Ada Limon, AGNI, Anna Akhmatova, Apparatus Magazine, Barbara Crooker, Best American Poets, Blogalicious, Bluets, craft talks, found poems, Ha Kiet Chau, Harriet poetry blog, Iain Haley Pollock, James Author, Jorie Graham, journals accepting summer submissions, latino poets, Lee Hynes, Maggie Smith, Miss Rumphius Effect, Modigliani, Naomi Shihab Nye, Negative Capability Press, O Magazine, Paula Meehan, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry and Grief, Poetry Foundation, poetry prompts, punctuation and poetry, Susan Rich, the language inside, Timothy Green, visual poems, Wild Violet, women poets

DAY FIFTEEN, Poets. We are half-way through! Today’s round-up of the best in prompts, poems and news from #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth coming at ya.

Best of the Prompts

Negative Capability Press’ “Poems w/ Colors in the Style of Nelson’s Bluets“
The Language Inside’s “Narrative poems after Naomi Shihab Nye”
Pink Ink Press’ “Tabloid Fever prompt”
O magazine’s “Insomniac prompt after Susan Rich”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Adjectives as Titles prompt “
NaPoWriMo’s “Poems That Address Themselves”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Through The Opposition’s Eyes prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s Jumping Into Form: Found Poems”
REWIND Being Poetry’s “Fairytale prompt”
Wild Violet’s “M is for Memory prompt”
REWIND Lee Hynes’ “(Visual) Paper Poems prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Maggie Smith| “Wren Songs”
Ada Limón| “Sharks in the Rivers”
Barbara Crooker| “Peeps”
Ha Kiet Chau| “A Bird’s Eye’s View”
Iain Haley Pollock| “Violets For Your Furs” (w/ commentary)
Jorie Graham| “Coaltrains Crossing the Wyoming Prairie”

Miscellaneous

9 L.A. Poets Giving Latinos a Voice
Punctuation and Poetry at Poets Online
Journals Accepting Summer Submissions at Blogalicious
Paula Meehan: The Poet at 60
Timothy Green’s Take on Submission Fees at Best American Poetry blog
Modigliani and the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova at the Telegraph
Poetry and Grief at Harriet Blog
Poetry as a Way of Thinking: Interview w/ James Author at 32 Poems

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 14)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 32 Poems, Adele Kenny, Aimee Nez, Apparatus Magazine, craft talks, Diane Lockward, Endicott Studios, Heavy Feather Review, Karen Skolfield, Kaveh Akbar, Lawrence Schimel, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Mary Alexander Agner, Miss Rumphius Effect, Negative Capability Press, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry Foundation, poetry prompts, science and poetry, the language inside, The Review Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Tristan Tzara, Wallace Stevens, Wild Violet, women poets

The best of the prompts, poems and news from DAY FOURTEEN of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth. I hope you’re still writing.

Best of the Prompts

Poetic Asides P-A-D “2forTuesday honest/dishonest prompt “
NaPoWriMo’s “Dialogue Poems”
Negative Capability Press’ “Family Photo Prompt”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Destination prompts”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s Jumping Into Form: List Poems”
REWIND 32Poems’ “Love Poem as a Traffic Ticket or Other Official Documents”
REWIND “Lockward’s Word Chain prompt” at The Music In It blog
Tristan Tzara’s “Dadaist Cut-Up Poems prompt”
Wild Violet’s “L is for Lanterne prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “The End of Something prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Lawrence Schimel| “Journeybread Recipe”
Karen Skolfield| “How to Locate Water on a Deserted Island”
Kwame Dawes| “Tornado Child”
Mary Alexander Agner| “Jump the Chromosome”
Wallace Stevens| “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”
Aimee Nezhukumatathil| “Self Portrait as C-Section Scar”

Miscellaneous
Virtuosic Metaphors: Interview w/ Lee  Ann Roripaugh at Heavy Feather Review
Giving Poets Room to Speak Meaningfully: Chat w/ Kaveh Akbar at The Review Review

HOT TOPIC: Do We Need Those Boogie Shoes??

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32 Poems, Billie Holiday, Boogie Shoes, Colleen Hoover, Color Master, Gods of Guilt, HOT TOPIC, Kings of Leon, literary trends, Literature, Michael Connelly, Pebble Lake Review, playlists, Ploughshares, poetry, Robert Lee Brewer, Slammed, YA fiction

What’s trending in the literary world these days? Playlists! That’s right, playlists for everything from door-stopper novels to slim, short fiction collections.

You could..um..do your thing to Kings of Leon while reading Fifty Shades of Grey (full playlist here) or you could channel Billie Holiday while digesting The Bone Season (playlist).

 

Better yet, you could create your own playlists for favorite books and blog about it. Here’s one that Brenna Dixon did for The Color Master. More from her Ploughshares blog series found here.

Even self-published authors can get in on the action. Some are building their playlists right into the book. Like this one from Colleen Hoover’s popular ebook Slammed.  

Best-selling authors can do it too. Here’s a list of music built-into Michael Connelly’s novels.  [By the way, his newest book, The Gods of Guilt, releases in December.]

Personally, I’d like to see someone apply the trend to poetry. Take a magazine with an online presence, say Pebble Lake Review or 32 Poems, and have readers post songs that suit the mood of the poem or take off on a line or an image.

I  think this would attract more takers (and be loads more fun) than Robert Lee Brewer’s challenge, where he asks readers of his collection to mash together bits from his own poems to form new ones.

Although, I do applaud his innovation.  We are all looking for ways to expand poetry to a wider audience. [For more on this subject, see previous post.] So kudos.  I just like the idea of this playlist thing better. It rides on the back of other cultural trends and incorporates more senses.

It is working wonders in the YA fiction space.  [I’ll let you google the blogs.]  The question is does it belong in adult fiction?

Tell me what you think:

Do playlists add or subtract from “literature”? Poetry?

As an author, are you embracing the playlist trend or bucking it?