#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 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

 

 

 

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 6)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, ambassadors for poetry, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, Bryan Thao Worra, Chirta Banerjee Divakaruni, Clayton Villi, Derek Walcott, Diy MFA, Ernest Thayer, hatbooks, index of poetry forms, Joyce Peseroff, Kris bigalk, language is a virus, lesfemmesfollesbooks, many hats, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Naomi Shihab Nye, Natasha Tretheway, National Museum of the American Indian, Patrick Phillips, Phillip Levine, picture prompts, pink ink press, Po-Emotions, Poem a Day, poest collective, poet laureates, Poetic Asides, poetical misprints, poetry in public spaces, poetry prompt generator, poetry prompts, slate poetry podcasts, tweetspeakpoetry, voices of women in american poetry, Wild Violet, women poets, writeshop, Writing Knights Roundtable, Younger Than That Now

DAY SIX, y’all!  The best of the #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth prompts, poems and news coming at ya…………

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #6: “Homer’s The Sick Chicken”
Mslexia “Wrong Hand Translation Prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Things Not as They Appear Prompt”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Choose Your Own Adventure poems”
30dpc “Invisible Sentence prompt”
Wild Violet “E is for Epistle prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–Somonka”
The Language Inside’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Breasts (or other objects) poem”
Writing Knights Roundtable “Vestigial Word: Lemniscate (infinity symbol) poems”
Imaginary Garden w/ Real Toads’ “Seeing Stars Prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “I’m Late, I’m Late prompt”
Kris Bigalk’s “In Answer prompt”
Many Hats’ 25 Prompts page
lesfemmesfollesbooks’ Oldest Bra Persona Poem prompt
Writeshop’s Cinquain prompt
NaPoWriMo’s “Aubade prompt”
Tweetspeak’s “Native Air”
Language is a Virus’ “Writing Prompt Generator”
National Museum of the American Indian “Moonlight Fire” picture prompt

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Joyce Peseroff| “Bluebird”
Patrick Phillips| “Elegy for a Broken Machine”
Ernest Thayer (read by James Earl Jones)| “Casey at the Bat” (video)
Naomi Shihab Nye| “How Do I Know When a Poem is Finsihed?” (video)
Derek Walcott| “from Omeros (Book III: Achille in Africa)”
Clayton Valli| “Dandelions” (ASL video poem)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni| “Cutting the Sun”
Natasha Tretheway| “Elegy for my Father”

Miscellaneous

Slate Poetry Podcasts archive
Poets’ Collective Index to Poetry Forms
Ambassadors for Poetry: Interviews with Three Texas Poet Laureates
Poems for Hunter’s and Anglers
Laotian poet Bryan Thao Worra’s The Tuk-tuk Diaries: Preludes &Postcards (full book on ISSUU)
Guerrero Celebrates First Year as San Antonio’s Poet Laureate
Poet Philip Levine and Degas Give Us An Art Lesson
Poetry in Public Spaces (dverse)
The Voices of Women in American Poetry (video)
The Surprising History of Poetical Misprints

 

 

 

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 5)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Amorak Huey, anne bradstreet, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, Corey Marks, Diy MFA, easter, hatbooks, Heid E. Erdrich, Jane Yeh, Jose Angel Araguz, Library of Congress, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Natioanl Museum of the American Indian, picture prompts, pink ink press, Po-Emotions, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, room mag, Sierra Golden, spotlight on us hispanic writers, titling poems, Traci Brimhall, Wild Violet, women poets, Writing Knights Roundtable, yeats, Younger Than That Now

#NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth DAY FIVE prompts, poems and news all in one place. Dig in!!!

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #5: “Callot’s Cat Watching Caged Bird”
Mslexia “Goblin Fruit prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Vegetable Poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Echo poems”
30dpc “Routine Ramblings”
Wild Violet “D is for Dimeter (forms)”
Po-Emotions “Disgust”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–Triolets w/ Jane Yolen”
The Language Inside’s “Introduction poems in the vein of Billy Collins”
Writing Knights Roundtable “Vestigial Word: Flitterwochen”
Younger Than That Now’s “Random Number prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Culinary Delights”
RT Diy MFA Brief Guide to Prose Poems &Postcard Prompt
RT OctPoWriMo 2014 Poetry Revolution prompt
National Museum of the American Indian picture prompt

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Sierra Golden| “Tango”
Heid E. Erdrich| “Last Snow”
Traci Brimhall translated by Erika Meitner| “Refuge(e)
Jane Yeh| “The Robots” [Scroll down}
Jennifer Gresham| “Anatomy”
Corey Marks| “Dumb Luck”
Amorak Huey| “This is Not a Love Poem for April From Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”
Jose Angel Araguz| “Superhero”

Miscellaneous

Spotlight on US Hispanic Writers
After the Light bulb Moment: Titling Your Poem
How Yeats Turned ‘Easter 1916’ Into a Political Anthem
ROOM mag’s NPM (Can Women)Reading List

 

 

 

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 4)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Aimee Nez, artspeak, brigit pegeen kelly, contemporary poets, entropy mag, Fair use of poetry, female empowerment, gary snyder, hatbooks, Ioanna Veronika Warwick, Johnny Depp, Kerouac, Library of Congress, litbridge, Liz Kay, lunch poems, marianne boruch, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Po-Emotions, Poem a Day, poems of american identity, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Rickey Laurentiis, Sandra Cisneros, the language inside, Wild Violet, women poets, Women writers, writing knights

DAY FOUR, peeps! The best of the best in prompts, poems and news from #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #4: “Courbet’s The Black Rocks of Troubille”
Mslexia “Nightwriter prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Departure Poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “27,7 Launch”
30dpc “Animal Instincts”
Wild Violet “C is for Character (POV)”
Po-Emotions “Anger”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–Décima w/ Margarita Engle”
The Language Inside’s “Routine poems in the vein of Li Young-Lee”
Floodmark Poetry’s “Ocean of Tranquility quote+painting”
Writing Knights Roundtable “Vestigial Word: Interfenestration”
Bullish Ink “Paint Chip Poetry”
John Hewitt’s Big Page of Prompts (Poewar)
50 Prompts from LitBridge

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Brigit Pegeen Kelly| “Song”
Marianne Boruch| “Pencil”
Li Young-Lee| “Pillow”
Kerouac (read by Johnny Depp)| “Mad Road Driving”
Sandra Cisneros| “Cloud”
Ioanna-Veronika Warwick| “Third Language”
Aimee Nez||”Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia”
Kay Ryan| “Spiderweb”
Rickey Laurentiis| “Southern Gothic” (w/ audio)

Miscellaneous

Carney guests at EKA “Blood, Body, Breath and the Living Poem”
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry
Entropy Mag’s “Where to Submit April& May”
Necessary Utterance: Poetry as Cultural Force (Library of Congress video)
Lunch Poems: Gary Snyder (video)
Poems of American Identity: Readings and Discussions with Contemporary Poets