#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 8)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 100 Scope Notes, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Apparatus Magazine, Connie Voisine, Dear Poet: Write Me, Elizabeth Koch, Eve L. Ewing, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Instagram poetry, Jen Karetnick, Joy Harjo, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Leticia Hernandez Linares, Lucille Clifton, Mariah Wilson, May Sarton, NPM16, Patricia Smith, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, poets' day jobs, QuillsEdge Press, The City Quill, Valerie Nies, Winter Tangerine, women poets, Words on a Wire

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Flower prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Word Salad prompts”
Imaginary Garden’s “Women’s Freedom prompt”
Elizabeth Koch’s “Everyday Item You Can’t Live Without prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Doodle poems prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Being Alone prompt”
30dpc’s “20min walk prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Tap Into Your Dreams prompt”
Poetry School’s “Afterlife prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Rewritten Endings prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Yearning lays its hands prompt”
Kate Foley’s “All About Family prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Something You Can’t Remember prompt”
The City Quill’s “Plant Perspective prompt”
Dear Poet: Write Me’s “Your Opposite prompt”
100 Scope Notes’ “Book Spine Centos prompt”
Winter Tangerine “Write What the Walls Whisper prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Morning Reflections prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Valerie Nies “How to Throw Like a Girl”
May Sarton “Metamorphosis”
Lucille Clifton “What the Mirror Said” (read by Bill Murray)
Joy Harjo “A Poem to Get Rid of Fear” (video)
Joy Harjo “A Map to the Next World”
Jen Karetnick “A Note to GK Chesterton”
Eve L. Ewing “to the notebook kid”
Patricia Smith “Hip-Hop Ghazal”

Miscellaneous

12 Famous Poets and Their Day Jobs (Mashable)
8 Writers Who Are Taking Poetry Beyond the Page
Words on a Wire broadcast with poet Leticia Hernández-Linares
Words on a Wire broadcast with poet Connie Voisine

**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 3)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Alisha Erin Hillam, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, Dan Musset, Emilia Phillips, Epistolary Poems, Five 2 One Mag, floodmark poetry, Galway Kinnell, irish modernist poets, jewish poems, Jumping Into Form, Lorraine Mariner, Lucille Clifton, Marcela Shulak, May Swenson, Miss Rumphius Effect, Mslexia Challenge, Neruda, Nikki Giovanni, Po-Emotions, Poem a Day, Poeming, Poems I Have Loved, Poetic Asides, poetry challenges, Poetry in Motion, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, poetry tumblr, Shape&Nature Press, Sharngrill Willy, Shel Silverstein, Storybird, visual poems, Wild Violet, women poets, Zedeka Poindexter

DAY THREE coming at ya! Best of prompts, poems and news #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #3: “Manet’s The Railway”
Mslexia “Page 37 Prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Machine Poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Dead Famous Prompt”
Kris Bigalk’s “Hodge-Podge prompt”
Storybird “Obsession”
30dpc “Goodbye, Winter Elegy”
Wild Violet “B is for Blues”
Po-Emotions “Surprise”
Five 2 One Mag’s “Dangling Picture Prompt”
NYPL “Epistolary Poems”
Poetry For All’s Video Prompts
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form-Raccontinos”
Shape&Nature Press’ “A Tree’s Ambitions”
Jarvis Subia’s “This Poem is a Life Jacket”
The Language Inside’s “Homage to a physical attribute a la Lucille Clifton”
Reading to the Core’s “Ode to Common Things in the vein of Neruda”
Floodmark Poetry’s “Bathroom Stall prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Dan Musset| “Eggs”
May Swenson| “Strawberrying”
Shangrilla Willy| “Hunger” (with sound)
Alisha Erin Hillam| “If I Had Twitter in 1998”
Nikki Giovanni| “kidnap poem”
Marcela Shulak| “Ecclesiastes”
Morgan Parker| “99 Problems”
Zedeka Poindexter| “Peach Cobbler” (video)
Galway Kinnell| “Saint Francis and the Sow” (Souncloud)
Emilia Phillips| “Supine Body in Full-Length Mirror, Hotel Room, Upper West Side
Lorraine Mariner| “Poem in Which I Turn 40& Still Admit to Fantasizing about Being In a Band “
Shel Silverstein| “Where the Sidewalk Ends”

Miscellaneous

How to Make a Visual Poem (video)
Conversation w/ Gwendolyn Brooks (Lib. of Congress video)
On Irish Modernist Poet Freda Laughton
Mariana Ruiz Firmat on Dawn Lundy Martin at the operating system
Poems of Jewish Faith and Culture Sampler
Free Download of Poetry Magazine April Issue

 

 

 

Sunday Sentence #9

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A Festival of Poets, Bill Moyers, David Abrams, Lucille Clifton, PBS, Poetry began quote, poets of color, Sunday Sentence, The Language of Life, women poets

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

Poetry began when somebody walked off a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, “Ah-h-h!”

SOURCE:Lucille Clifton in conversation with Bill Moyers (part of his compilation of conversations with 34 poets from the PBS TV Series) in The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets

A Lucille Clifton Poetry Power-Pack

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a dream of foxes, a note passed to superman, foremother, homage to my hips, leda 1, Lucille Clifton, mulberry fields, poetry power pack, printable bookmark, shapeshifter poems, The Book of Light, the mississippi river empties into the gulf, turning, won't you celebrate with me

When I was in 10th grade, I had an extraordinary teacher who introduced me to contemporary poetry, including the work of the incomparable, self-taught Lucille Clifton.  Up until this time, I had been writing short stories with some small success, but the encounter with Clifton’s work spun me like a top and sent me down the poetry path and into the creative writing program at Hollins College (now University), where I studied under the poet Adrian Blevins.

Financial issues would eventually land me back at the University of New Orleans with a math/finance scholarship (money for women in math &sci was being handed out much more readily than creative writing funds).  What a 360 that was! And a story for another time. What is important to note is that I never stopped writing or got over the meteor effect of Clifton’s work.

And now that I am back at my first love, her poetry is even more of a power source, especially as I learn to trust myself with my own voice.  Here’s a handful of poems (and a printable bookmark) to put towards your own “power-pack”:

won’t you celebrate with me  (Sound)

shapeshifter poems (Video)

the mississippi river empties into the gulf

homage to my hips (Video)

a dream of foxes

a note passed to superman

turning (Video)

mulberry fields (Video)

leda 1,2, 3

Download the printable bookmark of Clifton (with a poem) by artist Summer Pierre

 

Hope this gets you charged up and writing!!!!

 

L is for Ladies & Letters

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Deborah Ager, Epistolary Poems, Joy Harjo, Letters to the World, Lucille Clifton, Paula Brancato, poetry, Wom-po listserv

It’s also for luscious, which is what these poems are! Four from the better sex, as promised:

Letter to Lawson or We Were There When Jazz Was Invented by (the Fabulous) Joy Harjo

note passed to superman by (the incomparable) Lucille Clifton

Dear Deborah by Deborah Ager

From Madrid, For Baghdad by Paula Brancato

Want more from the lady scribes? Then pick up a copy of Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po Listserv.

And please post if you have a poem that you’re dying to share!!