#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 21)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, Blogalicious, Catherine Pierce, Cathy Linh Che, Cuban poetry, Found Poetry Review, Ginger Murchison, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jamaal May, Jen Fitzgerald, Kate Foley, Louise Gluck, Mary Caroll-Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Pocket Poets, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Susan Lefler, The Rumpus, The Writer's Center, Tweetspeak Poetry, W.S. Merwin, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Minor Character from a Fairytale/Myth prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Rites of Passage prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Response to Another Poem prompt”
Poetry School’s “Unusual Means prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Climbed Trees prompt”
Found Poetry’s “#erasingwarhol performance challenge”
Apparatus Mag’s “Someone Else’s Shoes prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Elephants prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Art prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Night Time prompt”
Mary Caroll-Hackett’s “Oh Those Eyes prompt”
The Writer’s Center’s “Open Field Prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Catherine Pierce “The Town Dreams the Tornado Apologizes”
Jamaal May “Little Design”
W.S. Merwin “Thanks”
Susan Lefler “Alligator Sun”
Cathy Linh Che “Los Angeles, Manila, Đà Nẵng”

Miscellaneous

Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #3 (The Rumpus)
The Poet on the Poem: Ginger Murchison (Blogalicious)
Top 10 Pocket Poets & Their Poems (Tweetspeak Poetry)
50 Years of Louise Glück’s appearances in Poetry
Island Verses: A Cuban Poetry Primer

**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’16 Round-up (Day 19)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, African poets, Apparatus Magazine, Beth Gylys, Black Applause, Carol Ann Duffy, Cindy Veach, Diane Gillam Fisher, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jo Bell, Lagan Press, Louise Gluck, Mariah Wilson, Mary Caroll-Hackett, Molly Vogel, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Rachel Abramowitz, Sara Peters, The City Quill, Togara Muzanenhamo, Winter Tangerine Review, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Didactic Poetry challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Repeated Words prompt”
The Writer’s Center’s “Giving Voice to Setting prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Cool/Uncool poem prompt”
Poetry School’s “Bestiary prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Survival prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Night’s Quietest Sound prompt”
Found Poetry’s “English to English Translation prompts”
Apparatus Mag’s “Sense of Dread prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Local Vernacular prompt”
The City Quill’s “Favorite song prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Favorite Word prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Fan Letter prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Wonder of a Moment prompt”
30dpc’s ” Day is Done prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Last One Standing prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Poem Inspired by the News prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Sara Peters “Babysitters”
Roger Bonair Agard “for you who could know me who might love what i love”
Molly Vogel “Lot’s Wife”
Cindy Veach “French Seams”
Beth Gylys “What Drives Us”
Diane Gillam Fisher “Pink Hollyhocks” (w/ commentary)

Miscellaneous

Interview w/ Poet Roberto Montes (Luna Luna Mag)
Rachel Abramowitz on Louise Glück (The Operating System)
Profile of British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy (tspoetry)
10 Contemporary Poets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Review of Zimbabwean poet Togara Muzanenhamo’s collection Gumiguru (Black Applause)

**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.

Odd Bits from a Creative Life (MAY ’15 ed.)

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#FairyTaleFriday, Amy Stewart, call for guest posts, Deep South Magazine, El Zarape Press, Flower Patch mystery, Grand Avenue, Greg Sarris, Louise Gluck, LSU Press, Meadowlands, Mouthfeel Press, Odd Bits of a Creative Life, paintings, paper-cuts, southern lit, The Washington Project, Watermelon Nights, Wicked Plants, works in progress

So, friends, it’s been awhile since I’ve done one these.  Let me just dive right on in:

READING

 

 

 

 

 

 

I happened across Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities while flipping channels between educational shows one weekend.  Even though I am not an avid gardener or especially interested in plants, I rushed to the library for a copy.  And I have to say that it has been a really exciting read. Caught my mother making notes from it for the next Flower Patch mystery.

Also came across Louise Gluck’s Meadowlands at a used bookstore. Reading the books back-to-back before writing has produced some interesting poems, including one about Peter Peter Pumpkin-Eater and another about cesium poisoning in the Arctic via contaminated lichen.

Won several of the Big Poetry Book giveways from last month as well as one from Deep South Magazine. Haven’t got to all of those titles just yet. By the way, Deep South has great Literary Friday round-ups  for those who are into Southern Lit.

WRITING

Besides the giveaway books, with review copies I am literally swimming in poetry. But since my philosophy is that you can never have too much poetry, I am all smiles.

If you are a fan of my Sabotage round-ups, you’ll see reviews soon for titles from El Zarape Press, Mouthfeel Press and LSU Press.  I won’t spoil the fun by revealing the specifics just yet.

On the submission front, tidy batches of poems have gone out to several journals, and I’m hoping to have some publication news on the chapbook(s) soon.  Since it is now Short Story Month, I have been busily revising some of my short stories, including a dark fairy tale set in Cajun country that required some extra care in keeping the patois authentic.

Before the end of the month, I plan to get to Greg Sarris’ Grand Avenue: A Novel in Stories  which I hope is as good as Watermelon Nights.  I’ll try to post something on the blog when I’ve had time to digest.

On my other blog, I finally released the (Christian, character-focused) high school American history curriculum that I authored.  And despite my fiction writing group falling apart, I have managed to add some new scenes to my novel-in-progress. More on this later.

Have just discovered the #FairyTaleFriday challenge on Twitter.  This looks like it would be fun.  Too late to start on the ‘tremor’ theme for today, but I hope to contribute something next week if time allows.

ART

Despite all this writing, I have not given up on art. Below are a few of my newest paintings. Pardon the terrible lighting! I usually wrangle my little brother into taking the photos.  This is what you get when I do it myself.  The colors are much more vibrant in person, trust me.

I have also nearly completed my paper-cuts series. The latest bunch incorporates fairytale themes and uses a pastel palette.  Since most of the earlier works are out at journals and zines (and I hope to submit the latest round), you’ll have to wait for a sample.

 

 

 

 

Well, that pretty much does it for now.

If you’d like to contribute a GUEST POST on your creative life, please drop me a line at bonesparkblog@yahoo.com.

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 13)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, Art Critical, artspeak, battle rap poems, Codex Journal, craft talks, Gloria Anzaldua, Hoa Nguyen, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Jane Kenyon, Joan Didion, journals that pay for poems, Kantan Chamorrita, Kathleen Jamie, Katie Manning, Kim Addonizio, Latino Poets Video Project, Louise Gluck, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Osma Alomar, Ploughshares, Poem a Day, poetic wandering, Poetically Speaking, Poetry Daily, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Has Value, poetry prompts, Robert Hass, science and poetry, Scottish Book Trust, stripped poems, Terrance Hayes, Tessa Gratton, The Daily Post, the language inside, Theodore Roethke, Upper Rubber Boot, Wild Violet, women poets

DAY THIRTEEN has arrived with a blanket of rain in NOLA. Wishing you sunny skies!! Here is the  best of today’s prompts, poems and news from #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth>

Best of the Prompts

Imaginary Garden w/ Real Toads’ “Joan Didion springboard prompt”
Mslexia “Stripped Poems (minus descriptors)”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Confession Poems”
30dpc “Meta Poems”
NaPoWriMo’s “Riddle Poems w/ Plath”
The Language Inside’s “Turning Points (in present tense) prompt”
REWIND The Daily Post’s “Ode to Things in Drawers w/ Apostrophes prompt”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Exploring Deepest Fears prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s Jumping Into Form: The Ekphrastic Poem
ARTSPEAK #13 picture prompt: A Monday Washing, NYC (artist unknown)
Wild Violet’s “K is for Kantan Chamorrita (form from Mariana Islands similar to battle rap)”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Kim Addonizio| “What Do Women Want?”
Jane Kenyon| “Let Evening Come”
Theodore Roethke| “Orchids”
Terannce Hayes| “The Deer”
Kathleen McGookey| “Monkey Island”
Louise Gluck| “The Evening Star”
Osma Alomar| 2Poems/Fables

Miscellaneous

On Building a Word-Hoard at Ploughshares
Tessa Gratton on Gloria Anzaldua at Poetically Speaking
Featured Poet: Katie Manning at Negative Capability Press
Poetry and Pho: Hoa Nguyen Shares Lyricism and a Recipe at ArtCritical
10 Books of Scottish Nature Poetry (including Kathleen Jamie’s newest)
Journals that Pay for Poems at PoetryHasValue
Latino Poets Video Project at Codex Journal
Poetic Wandering: Walking Tour Highlights Literary Harvard
The Poetic Species: Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson in Conversation w/ Robert Hass on Science& Poetry