#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 29)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, artspeak, Breda Wall Ryan, Diode, Elizabeth Marshall, Ellery Akers, Erin Belieu, Holocaust Poems, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, James Tate, Jo Harjo, list poems, Maggie Smith, Marcus Clayton, Mary Carroll Hackett, Mary Cassatt, Mary Cresswell, Molly Peacock, mslexia, Patty Paine, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry Daily, poetry humor, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Storialist, Tahoma Review, the language inside, Wild Violet, women poets

The best prompts, poems and news from DAY TWENTY-NINE of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth. Can’t believe the month is almost over. Too early to feel the loss?

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Poems in Review format”
30dpc “Themes in Your Work Exploration prompt”
Mslexia’s “Descrip of the Abstract w/ 5 Senses prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Missed Opportunity prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “What Nobody Knows prompt”
Wild Violet’s “Z is for Zenith prompt”
The Language Inside’s “The Pain of Love prompt”
ARTSPEAK #29 “Mary Cassatt’s The Bath”
Imaginary Garden with Real Toads’ “Flowers Named After Animals/Birds Named After Flowers”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Breda Wall Ryan| “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife”
Maggie Smith| “Reading the Train Book, I Think of Lisa”
James Tate| “It Happens Like This”
Ellery Akers| “The Word That Is a Prayer”
Molly Peacock| “Commands of Love”
Elizabeth Marshall| “The Blues”
Jo Harjo| “Perhaps the World Ends Here”
Erin Belieu| “I Growed No Potatoes to Write About, Sir”
Mary Cresswell| “Three Ghazals for the Dervish”

Miscellaneous

PoetryDaily Fundraiser
On Poems That Take Inventory at The Storialist
Marcus Clayton blogs about Polaroids, nostalgia, and poetry at Tahoma Review
Holocaust Poems: Interview with Poet and Filmmaker Janet R. Kirchheimer (Part 1)
Meet the Press: Karen Schubert in Conversation with Patty Paine, Editor of Diode Editions
21 Times Tumblr Nailed Poetry Humor at Buzzfeed

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 22)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, C.D. Wright, craft talks, Dead Poets Society, Deep South Magazine, Dorianne Laux, Emily Bedard, Flashbang Writing Studio, Guerilla Poetry, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Lisa Ann Sandell, Luci Brock-Broido, Mary Oliver, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Natalie Diaz, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetically Speaking, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, Poetry Northwest, poetry prompts, Sarah Heller, Shane Rhodes, Stories& Slams, Susan Stewart, West Trestle Review, Wild Violet, women poets

The best prompts, poems and news from DAY TWENTY-TWO of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

Stories& Slams’ “Cancer Sonnets”
Flashbang Writing Studio’s “Praise Poems after Christopher Smart”
West Trestle Review’s “First Person POV Historical Figure prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Nature Poems”
ARTSPEAK #22: “Peto’s Straw Hat, Bag and Umbrella”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Elements of Nature prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form: Apostrophe/Poems of Address”
Wild Violet’s “S is for Sevenling prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Pastoral poems”
Pink Ink Press’ “Poems about Home”
Imaginary Garden with Real Toads’ “Perfect Love Poem w/ Julia Bird’s Formula”
Mslexia’s “First Time prompt”
30dpc’s “Let’s Get Physical prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Mary Oliver| “Sleeping in the Forest”
Susan Stewart| “Four Questions Regarding the Dreams of Animals”
Natalie Diaz| “Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball”
Shane Rhodes| “Still Life with Apple” (w/ commentary)
Sarah Sloat| “Grassland” (video)
Dorianne Laux| “How to Sleep”

Miscellaneous

Emily Bedard on Reading Luci Brock-Broido in Mexico at Poetry Northwest
Understanding Poetry clip from Dead Poets Society
Talking Guerilla Poetry with C.D. Wright at Deep South Magazine
Poetically Speaking with Lisa Ann Sandell at Miss Print

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 21)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Ampersand podcast, Anne Harding Woodworth, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, craft talks, Degas, Distinguished Writers, Dorianne Laux, Flashbang Writing Studio, floodmark poetry, G.C. Waldrep, Jessica Goodfellow, Kenzie Allen, Kevin Young, Mark Doty, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Natalie Diaz, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Rabbi Rachel Barenblat, The Art of Reading (Poetry) Well, the language inside, West Trestle Review, Wild Violet, women poets

The best prompts, poems and news from DAY TWENTY-ONE of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

Flashbang Writing Studio’s “Golden Shovel prompt”
West Trestle Review’s “Talking Pet prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “What You Are/What You Are Not prompt “
ARTSPEAK #21: “Degas’ The Dance Lesson”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Treasured Keepsakes prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Persona poems”
Wild Violet’s “R is for Repetition prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Erasure prompt”
Floodmark Poetry’s “Word List prompt”
The Language Inside’s “Transformation/Masks/Costume prompt”
Mslexia’s “Objects that Belonged to Your Parents prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Jessica Goodfellow| “Rain”
Anne Harding Woodworth| “Empty Nest”
Natalie Diaz| “Grief Work”
Kenzie Allen| “Pathology”
G.C. Waldrep| “Settlement Song”
Dorianne Laux| “Bed”
Rabbi Rachel Barenblat| “Day 17 (of the Omer): Taste & See”

Miscellaneous

Dorianne Laux and Kevin Young: Distinguished Writers Series at Wellesley College (video)
The Art of Reading Well: Poetry as an Art & Craft at dark ecologies
Ampersand: Poets& Writers podcast 1 ( Interview w/ Mark Doty)

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 20)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Amiri Baraka, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, Ava Leavell Haymon, Carolynn Caddy, contemporary irish women poets, Corey Marks, craft talks, Fishouse, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Jericho Brown, Julia Alvarez, Maria Popova, Mark Strand, Molly Spencer, Orlando White, Poem a Day, Poethead, Poetic Asides, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Wild Violet, women poets

The best prompts, poems and news from DAY TWENTY of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

West Trestle Review’s “Through the Eyes of Your Nemesis prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “My (blank), the (blank) TITLE prompt “
ARTSPEAK # “Van Gogh’s Flowerbeds in Holland”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Fireside Yarn prompt”
Imaginary Garden w/ Real Toads’ “What’s Your Name? prompt”
Wild Violet’s “Stream of Consciousness Poems after Barbara Guest”
REWIND Adele Kenny’s “Food poetry prompt”
REWIND Poem Virtual’s “Domestic Poems after Kevin Prufer’s Seeds”
REWIND Cupertino Poet Laureate’s “Monday, Monday poems”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Molly Spencer| “Survival Guide for the Girl Trying to Avoid Capture”
Jericho Brown| “N’em”
Ava Leavell Haymon| “What the Witch Wanted” (video)
Carolyn Caddy| “Editing the Moon”
Mark Strand| “Dreams” (read by Maria Popova)
Julia Alvarez| “Hairbands”
Marilyn Chin| “How I Got That Name”
Orlando White| “Circle Shape”
Mary Robinson| “January, 1795”

Miscellaneous

Four Poets on the Legacy of Amiri Baraka at Lit Hub
An Index of Contemporary Irish Women Poets

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 19)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 52 blog, A River& Sound, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, Boston Poetry Slam, craft talks, Deirdre Hines, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Food Poems, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Julie Feng, Lavinia Greenlaw, lesfemmesfollesbooks, lunch poems, Mary Cornish, Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, mslexia, Negative Capability Press, Poem a Day, poet interviews, Poetic Asides, Poetry 180, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Rachel Dacus, Saveur, Tony Hoagland, Wild Violet, women poets, Yehuda Amichai, Younger Than That Now

The best prompts, poems and news from DAY NINETEEN of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

Drunk in a Midnight Choir’s “Letter to an Extinct Species prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Landay prompt”
lesfemmesfollesbooks’ “What Breasts are Not & What They Could Be prompt”
Younger Than That Now’s “How to Fail prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Authority Poems “
Negative Capability Press’ “Tootsies prompt”
ARTSPEAK #19 “La Forge’s Fisherman Spearing a Fish”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Google Image prompt”
Imaginary Garden w/ Real Toads’ “The Other Half of the Lemon/Mae West prompt”
Mslexia’s “Memories of [location] and [name of person] prompt”
Wild Violet’s “Q is for Quinzaine”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Rachel Dacus| “The Life of Umbrellas”
Tony Hoagland| “The Word”
Lavinia Greenlaw| “Blue Field” (w audio)
Deirdre Hines| “The Problem with Coats” (video)
Mary Cornish| “Numbers”
Yehuda Amichai| Near the Wall of a House”
Julie Feng| “Heliotropism”

Miscellaneous

A Feast for Bards: 13 Favorite Food Poems at Saveur
Lunch Poems: Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 13)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, Art Critical, artspeak, battle rap poems, Codex Journal, craft talks, Gloria Anzaldua, Hoa Nguyen, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Jane Kenyon, Joan Didion, journals that pay for poems, Kantan Chamorrita, Kathleen Jamie, Katie Manning, Kim Addonizio, Latino Poets Video Project, Louise Gluck, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Osma Alomar, Ploughshares, Poem a Day, poetic wandering, Poetically Speaking, Poetry Daily, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Has Value, poetry prompts, Robert Hass, science and poetry, Scottish Book Trust, stripped poems, Terrance Hayes, Tessa Gratton, The Daily Post, the language inside, Theodore Roethke, Upper Rubber Boot, Wild Violet, women poets

DAY THIRTEEN has arrived with a blanket of rain in NOLA. Wishing you sunny skies!! Here is the  best of today’s prompts, poems and news from #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth>

Best of the Prompts

Imaginary Garden w/ Real Toads’ “Joan Didion springboard prompt”
Mslexia “Stripped Poems (minus descriptors)”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Confession Poems”
30dpc “Meta Poems”
NaPoWriMo’s “Riddle Poems w/ Plath”
The Language Inside’s “Turning Points (in present tense) prompt”
REWIND The Daily Post’s “Ode to Things in Drawers w/ Apostrophes prompt”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Exploring Deepest Fears prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s Jumping Into Form: The Ekphrastic Poem
ARTSPEAK #13 picture prompt: A Monday Washing, NYC (artist unknown)
Wild Violet’s “K is for Kantan Chamorrita (form from Mariana Islands similar to battle rap)”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Kim Addonizio| “What Do Women Want?”
Jane Kenyon| “Let Evening Come”
Theodore Roethke| “Orchids”
Terannce Hayes| “The Deer”
Kathleen McGookey| “Monkey Island”
Louise Gluck| “The Evening Star”
Osma Alomar| 2Poems/Fables

Miscellaneous

On Building a Word-Hoard at Ploughshares
Tessa Gratton on Gloria Anzaldua at Poetically Speaking
Featured Poet: Katie Manning at Negative Capability Press
Poetry and Pho: Hoa Nguyen Shares Lyricism and a Recipe at ArtCritical
10 Books of Scottish Nature Poetry (including Kathleen Jamie’s newest)
Journals that Pay for Poems at PoetryHasValue
Latino Poets Video Project at Codex Journal
Poetic Wandering: Walking Tour Highlights Literary Harvard
The Poetic Species: Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson in Conversation w/ Robert Hass on Science& Poetry

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 9)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Ace Boggess, Amy Katherine Cannon, anjie kokan, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, haikus, Jennifer Chang, Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Carson, Kris bigalk, Kristy Bowen, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Naomi Shihab Nye, nonnets, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry app, poetry enterprises, poetry prompts, Renato Rosaldo, Robert Bly, sonnets, the language inside, tweetspeak, women poets

DAY NINE, chickadees!  Having trouble keeping up? Check this blog every afternoon for one-stop prompts, poems and news from #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #9: “Morisot’s Girl in a Boat with Geese“
Mslexia “In the Mood for Love”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Work Poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Things that Scare You prompt”
30dpc “Puntastic prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–More Haiku”
The Language Inside’s “Opposite Emotions prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Coffee Shop Talk & Famous Poet Name-drop”
NaPoWriMo’s “Visual Poems”
Tweekspeak “Grass prompt”
5 Prompts from poetry enterprises
Anjie Kokan’s “I AM prompt” rewind

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Kristy Bowen| “disassembling maria”
Naomi Shihab Nye| “Next Time Ask More Questions”
Robert Bly| “Driving to Town Late To Mail a Letter”
Jimmy Stewart| “A Dog Named Beau” (Johnny Carson Tonight Show video)
Jennifer Chang| “Slept”
Renato Rosaldo| “Midnight Driver”
Amy Katherine Cannon| “Barn Swallows”
Ace Boggess| “Would You Ride A Rocket Into Space?”

Miscellaneous

Enter Sonnets, Nonnets & Haikus in the London Book Fair Poetry Prize
Cossack Review 5 Questions for Poets Interview Series
8 Questions for Poet Lauren Berry (Deep South Mag)
Poems by Heart app

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 8)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, A Piece of the Pie, a.e. stallings, Adrian Blevins, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, doireann ni ghriofa, ellen bass, joel dias-porter, Kris bigalk, lorine niedecker, mary ruefle, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, peter coghill, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry and film, poetry prompts, Robert Hass, the doubling of self, the language inside, Wild Violet, women poets

Your one-stop source for the best of the prompts, poems and news from DAY EIGHT of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #: “Renoir’s Head of a Dog“
Mslexia “Coffee Shop First Lines”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Dare Poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Can’t Live Without You poems”
30dpc “Syntactic Ambiguity”
Wild Violet “G is for Ghazal”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–Animal Haiku”
The Language Inside’s “News Mine”
Pink Ink Press’ “The Sea Speaks”
NaPoWriMo’s “Palinodes”
Kris Bigalk’s “Dream prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Robert Hass| “The Problem of Describing Color”
Mary Ruefle| “The Hand”
Joel Dias-Porter| “Turning the Tables”
Doireann Ní Ghríofa| “The Headless Woman”
Peter Coghill| “Piet Mondrian and the Fixed Point Theorem”
Ellen Bass| “Ode to the Pork Chop”
Adrian Blevins| “Watching the News Hour”

Miscellaneous

Poetry and Film (at The Pig’s Wings blog)
The Doubling of Self: An Interview w/ Richard Siken
A.E. Stallings: Writing Poetry (Messenger Lecture)
Lorine Niedecker and the Obstinacy of the Particular

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 7)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, arthurian legends, artspeak, atlas obscura, Emily Skaja, Gary Soto, George Washington, hatbooks, Jane Hirshfield, John Ashberry, Kimberly Blaeser, Kristin Naca, Martha Silano, Mary Biddinger, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, National Museum of the American Indian, O Magazine, PBS, picture prompts, pink ink press, Poem a Day, poet laureates, Poetic Asides, Poetically Speaking, poetry prompts, poets on twitter, Robert Hass, Sarah Heller, Storybird, Terri Witek, Wild Violet, women poets, Yusef Komunyakaa

Your one-stop source for the best of the prompts, poems and news from DAY SEVEN of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #7: “Elizabeth Moutal’s Mortars and Pestles”
Mslexia “Childhood Utterings Prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Love Poems & Anti-Love poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Sex? poems”
30dpc “Looking Ahead prompt”
Wild Violet “F is for Figure of Speech”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–Senryu”
The Language Inside’s “Everyday Images w/ Repeated Lines”
Pink Ink Press’ “Romance &Affectionate Moments prompt”
PBS’ El Velador (The Nighwatchman): Place-based Poems
National Museum of the American Indian “Strawberry and Chocolate” picture prompt
Atlas Obscura “Natural Wonders: Grand Prismatic Spring” factoid prompt
Storybird “Poetry Roulette”
NaPoWriMo’s “Money poems”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Thuli Zuma| “90trilliion” (video)
Shakespeare| “Sonnet 126” (read by David Tennant)
Yusef Komunyakaa| “The Shortest Night”
Martha Silano| “Peach Glosa”
Gary Soto| “Oranges”
Sarah Heller| “Leaving Egypt”
Emily Skaja| “Self-Portrait with Hawk & Armada”
Jane Hirshfield| “Tolstoy and the Spider”

Miscellaneous

Ashberry on Poetry & Visual Art
Interview w/ Poet Terri Witek
Uplifting Verses from 11 Strong Female Poets
Eating Lorca: Nouns You Can Smell (Kristin Naca at Poetry)
George Washington as Poet
Poetically Speaking: The Surprises of Poetry
38 Gifted Poets on Twitter
Kimberly Blaeser and the Revelatory Power of Poetry
O Magazine’s 12 Books of Poetry to Savor
Interview: Mary Biddinger
Bankhead Visiting Writers: Robert Hass