#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)

**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.

#FridayReads By or About Incredible Women

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#FridayReads, Alex Myers, Amy Greene, Amy Tan, Cressida Cowell, Internationl Women's Day, Jennifer Clement, Sheryl St. Germain, Tracy Winn, Women writers

If you stick with me for long, you’ll realize that I am loyal to no genre or school.  I just go with what I like and that tends to span galaxies. Here are some titles by or about women that I highly recommend:

How to Betray a Dragon’s Hero, the latest in the Hiccup the Viking adventures from the ever-prolific Cressida Cowell. If you haven’t read the others in this awesome series (not just for kids), you are missing out. Buy the set, then fight your kids for the books!

 

 

Mrs. Somebody Somebody: Stories, debut collection (released in 2010) from writer Tracy Winn, all about a troubled Massachusetts mill town and its inhabitants. Beautiful prose.

 

 

 

Swamp Songs: The Making of an Unruly Woman, a very Southern memoir from Louisiana gal, Sheryl St. Germain. She also has several collections of poetry, which you should seek out.

 

 

 

The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, an illuminating look at the background and writing life of Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan.  Follow her active twitter feed @AmyTan for more insights.

 

 

Revolutionary: A Novel,a new release from transgender writer Alex Myers, brings us the true story of Deborah Samson who fought in the Revolutionary War disguised as a man.

 

 

 

Prayers for the Stolen is another new release by Mexican writer Jennifer Clement. It’s a gripping, no-punches-pulled look at the life of women in rural Mexico. Just received this one, and it can’t be missed. Very powerful and perfect for International Women’s Day.

 

 

Long Man is the second book from Amy Greene. This is the story of a tight-knit Appalachian town in the summer of 1936 as it unravels in the face of a  flood.  I have just started into this one, and it is every bit as good at Bloodroot so far.  I’ll try to give you a better review later.

 

 

Happy reading, peeps! Have a great weekend, and stay tuned for more good stuff coming next week.