#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 9)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Adele Kenny, Alice Major, Apparatus Magazine, Caryl Pagel, Dear Poet: Write Me, Deep South Magazine, Flower Conroy, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Kate Foley, Linda Parsons Marion, Mariah Wilson, mslexia, Naomi Shihab Nye, native american poetry, Nikky Finney, NPM16, Numero Cinq, Patrick Phillips, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Rangi McNeil, Ruth Lepson, Scholastic, Sophya Giudici-Juarez, Tanaya Wilder, Ted Kooser, Visual poetry, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Lines You’re Afraid to Write prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Magazine Images prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Nature’s Wonders prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Hide-out poems prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Happiness prompt”
Poetry School’s “Universe prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Last Time/TV Character Acrostics prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “When I Step Into the ___ prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Erasure poems prompt”
Dear Poet: Write Me’s “Geometric Shape of Goodness prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Where the World Ends, Or Begins prompt”
Mslexia’s “Sestina Challenge”
Winter Tangerine’s “Bad News in a Cheap Motel prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Childhood Memories prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Echo prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Alice Major “Euclid’s Iron Hand”
Linda Parsons Marion “Home Fire”
Rangi McNeil “The Heart is a Foreign Country”
Ted Kooser “Mother”
Flower Conroy “Flushed Brush Strokes Where I Left Imaginary Caresses”
Tanaya Wilder “Back to the Beginning” (video)
Naomi Shihab Nye “300 Goats”
Sophya Giudici-Juarez”Rinforzando”
Caryl Pagel “Red Sky”
Patrick Phillips “Barbershop”
Ruth Lepson “Fielding Dawson Portrait of Cy Twombly”

Miscellaneous

The Beauty & Difficulty of Nikky Finney (NPR)
Scholastic’s Poetry Picks for Beginning Readers
John Bennet Defines Visual Poetry in the Avant Garde (Ohio Poets Assoc)
Native American Poetry Chapbook list

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 8)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 100 Scope Notes, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Apparatus Magazine, Connie Voisine, Dear Poet: Write Me, Elizabeth Koch, Eve L. Ewing, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Instagram poetry, Jen Karetnick, Joy Harjo, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Leticia Hernandez Linares, Lucille Clifton, Mariah Wilson, May Sarton, NPM16, Patricia Smith, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, poets' day jobs, QuillsEdge Press, The City Quill, Valerie Nies, Winter Tangerine, women poets, Words on a Wire

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Flower prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Word Salad prompts”
Imaginary Garden’s “Women’s Freedom prompt”
Elizabeth Koch’s “Everyday Item You Can’t Live Without prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Doodle poems prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Being Alone prompt”
30dpc’s “20min walk prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Tap Into Your Dreams prompt”
Poetry School’s “Afterlife prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Rewritten Endings prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Yearning lays its hands prompt”
Kate Foley’s “All About Family prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Something You Can’t Remember prompt”
The City Quill’s “Plant Perspective prompt”
Dear Poet: Write Me’s “Your Opposite prompt”
100 Scope Notes’ “Book Spine Centos prompt”
Winter Tangerine “Write What the Walls Whisper prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Morning Reflections prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Valerie Nies “How to Throw Like a Girl”
May Sarton “Metamorphosis”
Lucille Clifton “What the Mirror Said” (read by Bill Murray)
Joy Harjo “A Poem to Get Rid of Fear” (video)
Joy Harjo “A Map to the Next World”
Jen Karetnick “A Note to GK Chesterton”
Eve L. Ewing “to the notebook kid”
Patricia Smith “Hip-Hop Ghazal”

Miscellaneous

12 Famous Poets and Their Day Jobs (Mashable)
8 Writers Who Are Taking Poetry Beyond the Page
Words on a Wire broadcast with poet Leticia Hernández-Linares
Words on a Wire broadcast with poet Connie Voisine

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 7)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Apparatus Magazine, Betty Adcock, Dear Poet: Write Me, Emma Trelles, Fanny Choi, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Negative Capability Press, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, The City Quill, Vivian Smallwood, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Tritina challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Sit & Observe prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Bracelet prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Memory & Mystery prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Urban __ prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “A Day to Remember prompt”
30dpc’s “Out the Window prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Random Chance prompt”
Poetry School’s “Street Names& Unlikely Characters prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Travel prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Ode to Most Loved Pair of Shoes prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Inner Buzzfeed prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Self-Portrait Cento prompt”
The City Quill’s “Haiku About Low Country Pluff Mud prompt”
Dear Poet: Write Me’s “What the Clouds Hate About Themselves prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “The Last Thing You Lost prompt”
Lagan Press’ “First Line prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Betty Adcock “Topsail Island”
Vivian Smallwood “Cave Woman”
Ellery Akers “Thank You for the Next Two Minutes of My Life”
Emma Trelles “Millificent”
Fanny Choi “Frame”

Miscellaneous

Seattle Poets Name Their Favorite Poems for NPM (Seattle Mag)
Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #1 (The Rumpus)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 6)

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#FridayReads, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Apparatus Magazine, awp16 speculative poetry panel, Bob Hicok, Breda Wall Ryan, Bustle, Cassandra de Alba, Danez Smith, Dear Poet: Write Me, Denise Levertov, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, e.e. cummings, Food52, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Janvi Mahnot, Kate Foley, Langston Hughes, Lois Roma-Deeley, Mariah Wilson, Marthe Reede, Mary Alexandra Agner, Mary Carroll Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, The City Quill, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Food poems prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “List Poem about a Body of Water prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Compound Words prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Rebirth and Wonder prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Ekphrastic prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “I am in Need of Music prompt”
30dpc’s “Repeated Themes prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Yarns Around a Campfire prompt”
Poetry School’s “Instagram prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Acrostic prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Meals Made from Memory prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Things to Remember prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Bonus (Ten) prompts w/ Noah Eli Gordon”
The City Quill’s “Pet Sonnet prompt”
Dear Poet: Write Me’s “Out of Your Pocket, On Fire at Your Feet prompt”
Food52’s “Not Sad Lunch Poem prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Write From Perspective of a Lake prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Marthe Reede “Of the Shulamite”
Langston Hughes “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
Danez Smith (excerpt from) “Song of the Wreckage”
Cassandra de Alba “what the deer carry”
Lois Roma-Deeley “Praise Song For She Who Would Clean the World”
Mary Alexandra Agner “Apparition”
e.e. cummings “let it go”
Denise Levertov “Aware”
Janvi Mahnot “Important Sentences in Romantic Relationships”
Bob Hicok “Elegy with Lies”

Miscellaneous

7 Poems You Didn’t Know Were About Sex (Bustle)
AWP16 Panel: Women Writers in Speculative Poetry and Fiction (via @webbish6)
Breda Wall Ryan On Writing (Poetry Collection) In a Hare’s Eye (The Irish Times)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 5 )

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Anne Carson, Apparatus Magazine, BBC Travel, Carl Phillips, Carolyn Smart, Found Poetry Review, G.C. Waldrep, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Maya Angelou, Neruda, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Paula Cunningham, Permafrost, persona poems, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry collections, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Rita Dove, The South in Verse, Wendell Berry, Winter Tangerine, women poets, writing poems from film

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Heirloom Seed Names prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Road Signs prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Villanelle challenge”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Singing Place prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Experienced/Inexperienced poems prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Sound(s) prompt”
30dpc’s “Triolet Failures prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Vices prompt”
Poetry School’s “Instagram prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “10 Lines prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Hairbrushing Memory/Ode to Hair prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Guilty Pride prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Replicate the Movement of a Song prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Mind Connections prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “The Sound of Silence prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Carl Phillips “For Night to Fall”
Wendell Berry “Peace of Wild Things”
Paula Cunningham “Aubade”
Anne Carson “Short Talk on Trout”
Rita Dove “Transit”
Maya Angelou “On the Pulse of Morning” (video)

Miscellaneous

Chile Through Pablo Neruda’s Eyes (BBC Travel)
Interview with Poet G.C. Waldrep at Permafrost
The South in Verse: April Poetry Picks (NC’s Our State Mag)
Carolyn Smart on Careen, her Bonnie &Clyde inspired poetry collection (cbcradio)
Reflections on Writing Poems from Film w/ Youth (free guide)
Using Persona Poetry to “humanize the abstractions of poverty, war, racism” (free guide)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 4 )

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Adrienne Rich, Apparatus Magazine, Billy Collins, feminist poets, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Jane Hirshfield, Kate Foley, Kelly Tsai, Leanne Howe, Major Jackson, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Native American Poets, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry collections, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Rachel Piercy, tweetspeakpoetry, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Walt Whitman, Winter Tangerine Review, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Cruelest Month prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Ode to Indulgences prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Nature Poems prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “What We Love prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Distance poems prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Peace of Mind prompt”
30dpc’s “Risks/Rewards prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Passion prompt”
Poetry School’s “Instagram prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Younger Self prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Never Seen Such a Sky prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Places/People You Used to Know prompt”
Found Poetry’s “WordBlocks prompt”
Tweetspeakpoetry’s “Pirate’s Life prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “First Thing You Kept From Your Parents prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Walt Whitman “I Hear America Singing”
Rachel Piercy “Brief Encounter”
Jane Hirshfield “My Life Was the Size of My Life”
Billy Collins “Aristotle”
Leanne Howe “Indians Never Say Goodbye”
Kelly Tsai “Wai-Puo (For My Bad-ass Grandma)” (video)
Victor Hernández Cruz “Here is an Ear to Hear”
Major Jackson “Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park”

Miscellaneous

Adrienne Rich’s “Feminist Awakening” (New Republic)
Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute Hosts Three Native American Poets (Podcast)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 3)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Apparatus Magazine, Black Ocean, book spine poetry, Bookriot, Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, Deborah Ager, Eleni Sikelianos, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Jacar Press, Jayy Dodd, Kate Foley, Khaty Xiong, L.G. Hertz, Lagan Press, Linda Pastan, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, mslexia, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry collections, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Taylor Mali, Trish Hopkinson, Willa Cather, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Fan Letters prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “What the Trees Know prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Classics prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Claiming What’s Yours prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Three___ prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “On Aging prompt”
30dpc’s “Worth the Wait prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Book Launch prompt”
Poetry School’s “Instagram prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “List Poems w/Title prompts”
Mslexia’s “Activities w/Stages& Metaphorical Layers prompt”
Taylor Mali’s “Metaphor-Making Dice prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Spring Weather prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Love Poem to Yourself prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Sense of Touch prompt”
Winter Tangerine “Sweetest Flavor prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Vispo prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Linda Pastan “I Am Learning to Abandon the World”
Willa Cather “Prairie Spring”
L.G. Hertz “That Crouching Spirit”
Khaty Xiong “Pork Rinds, Watered Rice” (w/ commentary)
Jayy Dodd “Ode to Junk, My Own”
Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan “Terzanelle: Manzanar Riot”
Deborah Ager “Mangos in Florida”
Eleni Sikelianos “Make Yourself Happy”

Miscellaneous

Jacar Press No-Fee Submission Call (via Trish Hopkinson)
30 Books of Poetry for Young Readers (Bookriot)
Kwame Alexander on NPR
11 Poetry Collections by Black Writers Everyone Should Read
Shreveport Library (social media) Book Spine contest

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 2)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Alain Ginsberg, Apparatus Magazine, Audre Lorde, Carolyn Moore, Edward Rathke, Entropy Magazine, Family Friend Poems, Found Poetry Review, Grant Snider, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Influential Poems, Kenneth Koch, Mariah Wilson, Mary Biddinger, Mary Carroll Hackett, Mary Oliver, Natalie Diaz, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Paula Meehan, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry comic, poetry prompts, Poetry School, Rasheed Copeland, Stanley Kunitz, The Onion, Winter Tangerine Review, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Family Portrait prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Lies That You Used to Believe prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Horses prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Body of the planet prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “He said/She said prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Color RED prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Junk Mail/Gov’t forms Erasure prompt”
30dpc’s “New Beginnings prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Ode to TV show prompt”
Poetry School’s “Instagram prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Harbingers of Doom Haiku series prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Ode to a Stranger prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Mary Oliver’s “Peonies” (video)
Stanley Kunitz “Route Six” (w/audio)
Audre Lorde “Recreation”
Kenneth Koch “To Breath”
Rasheed Copeland “Shrimp and Grits”
Carolyn Moore “How to Housebreak a Shadow”
Alain Ginsberg “Body Becomes Black Hole or Magic Trick in Three Acts”
Paula Meehan “Seed”
Natalie Diaz “Post-Colonial Love Poem”
Mary Biddinger “Hard Labor”

Miscellaneous
Grant Snider’s “Poetic Justice” comic in the NY Times
30 Days to Find the Poet in You (at Family Friend Poems)
National Poetry Month Raises Awareness Of Poetry Prevention (at The Onion)
Edward Rathke shares on Influential Poems at Entropy Mag

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#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 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