#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 20)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, Ben Brindise, Carolyn Hembree, Claire Trevien, Eavan Boland, Eileen Myles, Erin Lyons, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jo Bell, Katrina Naomi, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Mariah Wilson, Mark Yakich, Mary Caroll-Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Penned in the Margins, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, The Paris Review, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Kenning Challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “What Terrifies You prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “What Goes Unsaid prompt”
Poetry School’s “Destruction& Reconstruction prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “An Ending prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “When the Tea Kettle Sings prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Decimator prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “News stories prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Good Wishes Gone Bad prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Airport muses prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Spring Green prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “The Moment Before prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Urban Legend prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Eavan Boland “The Lost Art of Letter Writing” (video)
Lorna Dee Cervantes “Valentine”
Claire Trevien “Rollright Stones” (audio w/ commentary)
Katrina Naomi “The Way the Crocodile Taught Me” (audio)
Ben Brindise “A Poem to Your Shadow”
Erin Lyons “Like a Girl”

Miscellaneous

Interview w/ Poet Eileen Myles (The Paris Review archives)
The Reading Life podcast w/ La. Poets Mark Yakich & Carolyn Hembree( starts 9:37)

**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’16 Round-up (Day 12)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Airea D. Matthews, Ann E. Michael, Apparatus Magazine, Aracelis Girmay, Charlotte Matthews, Claire Trevien, Found Poetry Review, Indiana Humanities, Kate Foley, Kiki Nicole, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Michael Ruby, Naomi Shihab Nye, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetic forms, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Robert Frost, Split This Rock, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Index poems prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Limerick Challenge”
Indiana Humanities’ “Childhood Place prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Serious take/Silliness prompt”
Poetry School’s “Superpower prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Escape prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Totem animal prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Borrowed Language prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Art of Celebration/Survival prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Exploring Options prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Favorite Spot prompt”
30dpc’s “Watcha reading prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Write Your Creation Myth challenge”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Naomi Shihab Nye “Making a Fist”
Charlotte Matthews “Night Paver’s Song”
Millicent Borges Accardi “Portrait of a Girl, 1942”
Michael Ruby “Only on Tuesday”
Airea D. Matthews “Swindle”
Ann E. Michael “No White Horses”
Kiki Nicole “The Blacker the Berry”

Miscellaneous

Split This Rock Interview with Aracelis Girmay
Frost’s Granddaughter Discusses New Book About Him (podcast)
13 Ways of Looking at the Poem (Poetic Forms)
On Claire Trévien’s Astéronymes (Oxford Mail)

**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 28)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Claire Trevien, Dorianne Laux, ELJ Publications, Flashbang Writing Studio, Jane Hirshfield, Maya Angelou, Millissa Alger, mslexia, Negative Capability Press, pink ink press, Poem a Day, poet interviews, Poetic Asides, poetry folio, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Poets&Writers, Salmon Poetry, Seamus Cashman, Stories& Slams, West Trestle Review, Wild Violet, Wislawa Szymborska, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Bridges prompt”
30dpc “Change of Scenery prompt”
Mslexia’s “Ridiculous Self-Portrait prompt”
Negative Capability Press’ “Diamante prompt”
West Trestle Review “Reinvention prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “2forTues Matter/Anti-Matter prompt”
Stories& Slams’ “Newsworthy Villanelles”
Wild Violet’s “Y is for Yadu prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Fast Forward prompt”
The Language Inside’s “Virtues after Kay Ryan prompt”
Flashbang Writing Studio’s “It’s Alive! prompt”
Poets& Writers’ “Musical Inspiration prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Ada Limon| “The Great Blue Heron of Dunbar Road”
Wislawa Szymborska| “Possibilities”
Maya Angelou| “Still I Rise”
Jane Hirshfield| “Each Morning a White Bull Steps Shining Into the World”
Millissa Alger| “Empty Cradleboard”
Seamus Cashman| “I too begin with scaffolding” from the Sistine Gaze(video)
Claire Trevien| “Whales”
Dorianne Laux| “Disturbance”

Miscellaneous

Founder of ELJ Publications Talks Poetry, Emerging Writers and Mental Illness Awareness
Speculating Darkly: A Poetry Folio at Harriet the Blog