Read This With That

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Adrienne Rich, book pairs, Diving Into the Wreck, Dr. Richard Smith, Joshilyn Jackson, Never Have I Ever, Read This With That, The World Beneath

Last month, I ran across a BookPage blurb about Joshilyn Jackson‘s new novel Never Have I Ever. I was surprised, but happy to see that she had finally jumped into the suspense genre.  I, of course, scooped up a copy and enjoyed it immensely.  Besides the twisty action going on regarding Amy Whey’s mysterious past, diving surfaces as a type of mind-clearing lifeline for the character.

It reminded me so much of poet Adrienne Rich’s collection,  Diving Into the Wreck that I dug out my well-worn copy.  You can read the book’s titular poem over on Poets.org. (I’ll wait for you) .

See what I mean? So gorgeous! Perfect pair.

Then a short while later, I found another fun surprise: Dr. Richard Smith‘s super sleek The World Beneath: The Life and Times of Unknown Sea Creatures and Coral Reefs, which is a frickin’ eye-gasm of deep ocean photography.  Seriously, do yourself a favor and buy this book, or at the very least follow Smith’s Insta like right damn now.

 

#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)

**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 12)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Adrienne Rich, Apparatus Magazine, art of being rejected, Bogman's Cannon, book of kells, CantoMundo Poets, coldfront mag, Cordite Poetry, craft talks, Daniel Garcia Ordaz, doireann ni ghriofa, Emma Trelles, Essay Press, Freda Laughton, Hello Kitty poems, Jordan Abel, ken letko, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Negative Capability Press, pink ink press, Poem a Day, poet animal quiz, poet mariachi, Poetic Asides, poetics and identity, poetry and pop culture, poetry prompts, Rae Armantrout, Sandra Faulkner, the language inside, West Trestle Review, women poets, Writing Knights Roundtable

DAY TWELVE, Beautiful Bards!  BoneSparkblog is here with all the best prompts, poems and news from #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

Mslexia “Biographical Poems in the Third Person”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Damage Poems”
30dpc “It’s a Thin Line prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Plath Vibe prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Prose to Poem prompt”
The Language Inside’s “Working on Voice in the First Person poems”
Writing Knights Roundtable’s “Vestigial Words: Kipe (meaning to steal) prompt”
REWIND The Daily Post’s “Future Sonnets w/ Chiamus prompt”
West Trestle Review’s “Barbie (or other character) poems”
Negative Capability Press’ “Pain Pot prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Doireann Ní Ghriofa| “Cleaving a Puzzle-Tree”
Rae Armantrout| “Exact”
Adrienne Rich| “A Woman Dead in Her Forties”
Jordan Abel| “Orphan”
Sandra L. Faulkner| “When Hello Kitty Registers for the Working Cats Conference, Security Confiscates Her Catnip”
Emma Trelles| “Autorretrato Quintina”

Miscellaneous

FSG asks What’s Your Poet Animal?
The Art of Being Rejected at Book of Kells
On Poetry and Pop Culture at Coldfront
Interview w/ Ken Letko: The Mulch Pile and Germinating the Next Project
Freda Laughton and the Critical History of Women’s Poetry at Bogman’s Cannon
Poet Mariachi Daniel Garcia Ordaz at Corazon Bilingue (radio interview)
On Poetics, Identity & Latinidad: CantoMundo Poets Speak Out

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 11)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Adrienne Rich, Apparatus Magazine, Ash Bowen, Blue Fifth Review, craft talks, Denise Duhamel, Diode, George Moore, Kalani Bird Clarke, Karen Craigo, lisa appleman, Mary Crow, Maxine Hong Kingston, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Negative Capability Press, New Ohio Review, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Rattle Young poets, Smartish Pace, StorySouth, The Journal, the language inside, the personal in lyric poetry, women poets

Welcome to DAY ELEVEN, Poets! BoneSparkblog has all the best prompts, poems and news from #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

 

Best of the Prompts

Mslexia “Letters to and from Objects prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Seasonal Poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Ode to Vice or Deepest Desire”
30dpc “Love/Hate prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Childhood Friend or Foe prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Sapphics prompt
The Language Inside’s “Helper poems”
Writing Knights Roundtable’s “Chin Music (aka Gossip) poems”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Karen Cragio| “Inventory”
Ash Bowen| “Half Abecedarian Love Poem”
Adrienne Rich| “Fox” (w/ audio)
Kalani Bird Clarke| “water fall”
Denise Duhamel| “Old Love Poems” (w/ audio)
Mary Crow| “Black Running From the Faucet”
George Moore| “Quantum Teleportation” [scroll]

Miscellaneous

The Use of the Personal in Lyric Poetry
Maxine Hong Kingston: Lunch Poems

Astronomical 2sDay Poems

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2sDay Poems, Adrienne Rich, Caroline Caddy, Editing the Moon, Esperance, female poets, Planetarium, The Fact of a Doorframe, The Poetry Foundation, Women writers

This week we are tapping into The Poetry Foundation‘s archives for beauties from two prolific female poets. Moon over selections from Adrienne Rich and Caroline Caddy below:

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Planetarium

By Adrienne Rich

          Thinking of Caroline Herschel (1750—1848)
astronomer, sister of William; and others.

A woman in the shape of a monster

a monster in the shape of a woman

the skies are full of them

 

a woman      ‘in the snow

among the Clocks and instruments

or measuring the ground with poles’

in her 98 years to discover

8 comets

she whom the moon ruled

like us

levitating into the night sky

riding the polished lenses

 

Galaxies of women, there

doing penance for impetuousness

ribs chilled

in those spaces    of the mind….

 

===>FULL TEXT HERE<====

from The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001

 

 

Editing the Moon

By Caroline Caddy

Be precise

authority is magic.

When you think you’ve got it straight

wax wane declination

feel the movement under your hand

one summer morning

as you observe it set…

 

====>FULL TEXT HERE (with audio)<====

from Esperance (Freemantle Press)

A Foremother Friday Trio

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A Writer's Life, Adrienne Rich, Any Other Name, Deal Me In Reading Challenge, Deborah Eisenberg, Electric Literature tumblr, Ellen Moody, Foremother Friday, Free Comic Book Day, From the Women's Canon, Muriel Rukeyser, NPR interview, Reading the Short Story blog, Ron Hogan, Short Story Month, The Millions, Twilight of the Superheroes, Women's Poetry List-Serv

The New Novel (1877) by Winslow Homer

For those of you following the blog, you’ll remember that I mentioned the Women’s Poetry List-Serv as the inspiration for “Foremother Fridays”.  The wonderful Ellen Moody started the practice there and has put together an extensive library of archived postings at the dedicated website, From the Women’s Canon: Foremother Poets.

I’d like to refer you to two of her write-ups in lieu of an original poetry posting, and then we will move on to a foremother of the short story form.

                                      

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)                     Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)

 

For fans of the comic genre, tomorrow is a big day with free giveaways and a smorgasbord of activities at independent comic stores all over the country. While Deborah Eisenberg doesn’t really dabble in the genre, her short story collection, Twilight of the Superheroes takes some of the sheen off the superhero ideal and has a rocking comic-esque cover.  The collection won the PEN/Faulkner award in 2007 and revolves around a cast of the confused and hurting in the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy. Just the kind of dark, gritty thing for a bright May weekend!

But if you’d rather not shell out the funds for the book, you can read her story, “Your Duck is My Duck,” at the Electric Literature Recommended Reading Tumblr or  “The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor” at the NPR archives. And do check out her Art of Fiction (no.218) interview with Catherine Steindler (of the Paris Review), as well as the A Writer’s Life piece at the Telegraph and the Beatrice interview with Rob Hogan for more on her views about short fiction and the writing process.

And last but not least, find out more about her life and views on society and justice at The Millions’ Reality Squared profile.

Then if you’re still looking to round out your Deal Me In Playlist, consult Reading the Short Story blog’s favorite collections for ideas on where to glean.