#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

 

 

 

The Witching Hour Finds You in Bed…

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31 Days of Halloween, Abyss&Apex, Ada Hoffman, Alex Carrigan, All My Love to the Monster Devouring Me, Amazing Stories, At That Age When We Girls Become Fairies, Betwixt, Brooke Wonders, Carol Holland March, Carolee Sherwood, Clarkesworld, creepy poetry, David Kopaska Merkel, Day of the Dead, Devilfish Review, E. Kirstin Anderson, Edgar A. Poe, Eleonara, Erik Amundsen, Fish Boy Hits the Teen Years, Ghostweight, Goblin Fruit, Gorgon Girls, Graveyard Rock, halloween, Hand Me Down Halloween, Harvey's Dream, Headmistress Press, Helen Kitson, Henry Wouk Is Still Alive, Here Be Toothsome Wolves, Hilary Joubert, Inkscrawl, Judith Barrington, Kelly Link, Lilla Ashley, Liz Henry, Liz Kay, Luna Station Quarterly, Made of Lines blog, Maria Dahvana Headley, Menacing Hedge, Michael J. DeLuca, Mother Frankenstein, Natalie Diaz, NightBlade, Nightmare Magazine, Pat Cadigan, Poetry Society of America, Quail Bell Magazine, Real Witches Don't Wear Hats, Rose Red Review, Sabotage Reviews, Saira Ali, Samhain, Sestina at the Maldron Hotel Ireland, Shannon Hozinac, Small Beer Press, Soul Harvest, Stephen King, Stone Telling, Taxidermist in the Underworld, The Axe-Eaters, The Faery Handbag, The Gingerbread Dress, The Girl Who Couldn't Fly, The Golden Key, The Mermaid at SeaWorld, The Stone Horse of Flores, The Witch Has a Purpose, Unfair Exchange, Wake Up Poetry, When the Wife Brings Love Back From the Dead, Witch's Primer, Women Destroy Horror, Yoon Ha Lee

Or perhaps you are atop a broomstick or pumpkin.  Wherever you find yourself this Halloween, don’t let the hour arrive without first indulging in some of these SPOOKTACULAR finds:

 

STORIES

D. Long’s (Lushly illustrated)

version of E.A. Poe’s Eleonara—from Amazing Stories

 

Here Be Toothsome Wolves
Brooke Wonders—at Rose Red Review

 

Henry Wouk Is Still Alive
Stephen King—at The Atlantic

 

Harvey’s Dream
Stephen King—at The New Yorker

 

The Faery Handbag
Kelly Link–at Small Beer Press

 

Ghostweight

Yoon Ha Lee–at Clarkesworld

 

Taxidermist in the Underworld
Maria Dahvana Headley–at Clarkeworld

 

The Stone Horse of Flores by Michael J. DeLuca–at Betwixt

 

Unfair Exchange by Pat Cadigan–at Nightmare Magazine: Women Destroy Horror! Special Issue

 

The Girl Who Couldn’t Fly by Carol Holland March–at Luna Station Quarterly

 

POEMS

Gorgon Girls by Saira Ali–at Strange Horizons

Mother Frankenstein by Liz Henry–at Stone Telling

The Gingerbread Dress by

Lilla Ashley–at Rose Red Review

Sestina at the Maldron Hotel, Ireland
Judith Barrington–at Rose Red Review

When the Wife Brings Love Back From the Dead, She Creates a Monster by

Carolee Sherwood–at Goblin Fruit

The Mermaid at SeaWorld by Ada Hoffman–at NightBlade

The Axe-Eaters by Shannon Hozinac–at Menacing Hedge

Soul Harvest by

Hillary Joubert–at The Golden Key

Hunger—The Witch has a Purpose

by Liz Kay–at The Golden Key

Day of the Dead by Helen Kitson–at Sabotage Reviews

Samhain by John Montague–at Wake Up Poetry

At That Age When We Girls Become Fairies by E. Kristin Anderson--at Abyss&Apex

Witch’s Primer, Lesson 4 Erik Amundsen –at Inkscrawl

Fish Boy Hits the Teen Years

by David Kopaska-Merkel–at Devilfish Review

All My Love to the Monster Devouring Me by Alex Carrigan–at Quail Bell Magazine

Hand-Me-Down Halloween by Natalie Diaz–at Poetry Society of America

 

ART

31 Monsters of Halloween at Made of Lines blog

Real Witches Don’t Wear Hats

 

FUN