#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 1)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Ada Limon, Adele Kenny, artspeak, Beth May, ellen bass, Emi Mahmoud, Found Poetry Review, hatbooks, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, June Jordan, Lagan Press, Margaret Rozga, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Mount Pleasant Poetry Project, mslexia, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Rita Quillen, Scholastic, Shel Silverstein, Sylvia Plath, Ted Kooser, Vivian Shipley, women poets

I am so excited to welcome you to DAY ONE of this year’s National Poetry Month! The number of hashtags AND prompters seems to have doubled this year.  A  good sign, I think. Once again, BoneSpark will be your source for a daily round-up of the best prompts, poems and news from your favorite hashtags #NaPoWriMo/#NPM16/#NaPoMo /#NationalPoetryMonth/#poemaday.

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Lune challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Word Salad prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “April is for Fools & Poets prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Poetry and Power”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Foolish Poems prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Remembrance w/ Neruda prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Generative Activities w/ Patrick Williams”
HATBOOK’s “#NoticePoem prompt”
30dpc’s “New Day, New Dawn prompt”
ARTSPEAK’s “Pissaro Artist’s Garden prompt”
Mslexia/Poetry School’s “Never in a love poem prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Water slide w/ instructions prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Addressing Death prompt”
Mt. Pleasant Poetry Project “10 Ten Words in voice of tree, etc. prompts”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Ellen Bass “Relax”
June Jordan “These Poems”
Margaret Rozga “In the Garden”
Rita Quillen “What the Creek Says”
Emi Mahmoud “Mama” (spoken word)
Beth May “Three Poems about Job Interviews”
Vivian Shipley “Blueprints”
Ada Limon “Service”

Miscellaneous
Interview with poet Ted Kooser interview at Writer’s Almanac
Free Shel Sliverstein Shel-ebration Poetry Workshop Download
Fine-tuning metaphor with Ted Kooser (Scholastic Young Poets guide)
Scholastic’s Master Class with Sylvia Plath (pdf)

 

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#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