#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 10)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, Black Lawrence Press, Brigit Peegen Kelly, Carol Berg, Cynthia Manick, Elizabeth Bishop, Emma Bolden, Found Poetry Review, Gwendolyn Brooks, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indian Humanities, Irish Times, Ithaca Lit, Jane Draycott, Jo Shapcott, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Philip Levine, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Rebecca Goss, Redheaded Stepchild, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Book Spine poems challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Favorite Color prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Weaving in a Trio of Titles prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Emotions as Title prompt”
Poetry School’s “Bathroom Setting prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Slam Poems challenge”
QuillsEdge Press’ “I’m Starving For ___ prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Unearthing What’s Buried prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “What Work Is prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Inanimate Objects to Life prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Seeking Inklings in an Old Video prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Past Lives prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Darkest Fears, Things that Haunt prompt”
Elizabeth Koch’s “Love/Hate prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Gwendolyn Brooks “The Lovers of the Poor”
Cynthia Manick “What I Know About Blues”
Elizabeth Bishop “The Art of Losing”
Brigit Peegen Kelly “The Leaving”
Carol Berg “The Temptress Writes Once More About the Dream of Him..”
Kerrie O’Brien “Notre Dame”
Emma Bolden “I Was Told Not to Write About the Body/The Daughter I Will Never Have”

Miscellaneous

Poet Philip Levine on America’s Workers (Bill Moyers)
Medicine Unboxed (video) MORTALITY – ELEGY – Draycott, Goss and Shapcott

**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 26)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Amy Lowell, Asian Americans poets, Beastly Verse, Brain Pickings, Claudia Rankine, Ellen Hopkins, Flashbang Writing Studio, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jamaal May, Marianne Moore, Mark Jarman, Mary Biddinger, mslexia, Pablo Neruda, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Robin Scofield, Stories& Slams, the language inside, West Trestle Review, Wild Violet, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

Mslexia’s “Tiny Square prompt”
The Language Inside’s “Boundaries prompt”
Imaginary Garden with Read Toads “3 for 1 Play it Again prompt”
Flashbang Writing Studio’s “So Good You Can Taste It (after Diane Lockward)”
West Trestle Review “How-To Extended metaphor poems”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Words of Shakespeare prompt”
Stories& Slams’ “Conversations w/ Friends prompt”
Wild Violet’s “W is for Word prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Persona Poems”
Pink Ink Press’ “The Fabrication prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Gwendolyn Brooks| “We Real Cool”
Mark Jarman| “Then Saw the Problem”
Amy Lowell| “Superstition”
Mary Biddinger| “Burying the Apron”
Jamaal May| “Sky Now Black with Birds” (video)
Robin Scofield| “Three Paintings by Monet”
Claudia Rankine| from “You are in the dark, in the car….”
Marianne Moore| “The Fish”

Miscellaneous

Asian-American Poets to Watch at NBC news
Painting the Verbal Landscape: Ellen Hopkins at Write All The Words
Ode to the Captain: Discovering Pablo Neruda at fsgworkinprogress blog
Beastly Verse: From Lewis Carroll to William Blake, Beloved Poems About Animals in Vibrant& Unusual Illustrations at Brain Pickings

Poetry in the Cubist Zone: Labwork for Picassoheads

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Woman Sitting in Armchair (1939)

There has been much in the news recently about the great master painter Pablo Picasso.  Musée Picasso Paris today announced that its October 25th reopening will celebrate new work donated by his eldest daughter Maya Widmaier Picasso (78) along with the 133th anniversary of the artist’s death.

According to The Guardian article, the donation consists of a drawing of a woman’s face from his Cubist period and a notebook containing nude studies done in 1960.

Interesting to note, that the drawing’s reverse features the bottom half of a partial sketch of the Picasso-smitten, French poet Guillaume Apollinaire. The top half of which is already in the museum’s collection.  With some 5,000 of Picasso’s works on hand, including over 300 paintings, only a small fraction can be displayed at any one time.  How lovely to have even a taste, and what fun it would be to sneak into those storage alcoves!

This past month, we also learned that the painter’s “The Blue Room” hides a mystery man (in a bow-tie no less) behind the surface painting. Look out Doctor Who #11. You may have a rival.

This was, of course, on the heels of last year’s scandal when Picasso’s stepdaughter accused her handyman of stealing over 400 of the artist’s sketches and watercolors.  While a few months prior to this astonishing news, an Ohio man stumbled upon the find of a lifetime, snatching up a rare print (worth a tidy sum) for less than $20 at a thrift store.

So it seems, that the celebrated artist’s face has been popping up everywhere. Even here on this blog!!  Back in the spring, I wrote a piece on Literary Rub-offs that introduced you to the Picasso/Gertrude Stein connection.  That particular association fascinates me to no end, and other poets seem a bit stuck on the Cubist painter as well.

Here are just a handful of poems inspired by his groundbreaking artwork:

If I Were Told, A Completed Potrait of Picasso by Gertrude Stein (with audio)

Picasso XXIII by e.e. cummings

The Old Guitarist

The Chicago Picasso by Gwendolyn Brooks

excerpts from The Man With the Blue Guitar by Wallace Stevens

Solsequiem (after Pablo Picasso’s Maternidad, 1905) by Marjorie Evasco

Pablo Picasso from Seven Poems by Shuzo Takiguchi (translated by Yuki Tanaka &Mary Jo Bang)

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Stephen Gibson

Picasso at the Bus Stop by Kayla Cagan (for National Poetry Month ’14)

 

And if your looking for a whole collection that sprung from Picasso-watered earth,: Captain Lavender by Medbh McGuckian is for you.

You might also like to explore some of Picasso’s (Own) Poetry with Mary Ann Caws or try your hand at some of the FUN art activities at Jimmie’s Squidoo.

===>Once you have thoroughly immersed yourself in the Cubist zone, your assignment is to write your own Picasso-inspired poem on the back of one of these nifty coloring pages.  A small gallery below for color reference and inspiration: