#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

“Sciency” Poetry Collections

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Alison Hawthorne Deming, Jennifer Gresham, Jo Shapcott, Katherine Larson, Kikimo Hahn, Lavinia Greenlaw, Matthew Merritt, Megan Fernandes, Michael Symmons Roberts, Neil Rollinson, Noel Duffy, Paisley Rekdal, science influenced poems, sciency poetry collections

I’ve never been one to advocate the separation of the sciences from the arts. Da Vinci made great strides in both precisely because he did not limit himself to the study of either one.

William Carlos Williams was another such Renaissance man. He managed to write his great volume of poetry while still maintaining an active physician’s practice. Hard to fathom, but true.

Many contemporary poets have emerged with roots in the big, wide world of science. Here are a dozen “sciency” collections that I would recommend:

 [Click on the poet’s name to go to their bio/webpage]

1. Animal Eye by Paisley Rekdal

2. Corpus by Michael Symmons Roberts

3. Diary of a Cell by Jennifer Gresham

4. The Elephant Tests by Matthew Merritt

5. On Light and Carbon by Noel Duffy

6. Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott

7. Night Photograph by Lavinia Greenlaw

8. Radial Symmetry by Katherine Larson

9. Science and Other Poems by Alison Hawthorne Deming

10. Some Citrus Makes Me Blue by Megan Fernandes

11. Spanish Fly by Neil Rollinson

12. Toxic Flora by Kikimo Hahn

Please add to the list by leaving your own recommendations in the comments.  Thanks and enjoy!