#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 29)

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The best prompts, poems and news from DAY TWENTY-NINE of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth. Can’t believe the month is almost over. Too early to feel the loss?

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Poems in Review format”
30dpc “Themes in Your Work Exploration prompt”
Mslexia’s “Descrip of the Abstract w/ 5 Senses prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Missed Opportunity prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “What Nobody Knows prompt”
Wild Violet’s “Z is for Zenith prompt”
The Language Inside’s “The Pain of Love prompt”
ARTSPEAK #29 “Mary Cassatt’s The Bath”
Imaginary Garden with Real Toads’ “Flowers Named After Animals/Birds Named After Flowers”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Breda Wall Ryan| “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife”
Maggie Smith| “Reading the Train Book, I Think of Lisa”
James Tate| “It Happens Like This”
Ellery Akers| “The Word That Is a Prayer”
Molly Peacock| “Commands of Love”
Elizabeth Marshall| “The Blues”
Jo Harjo| “Perhaps the World Ends Here”
Erin Belieu| “I Growed No Potatoes to Write About, Sir”
Mary Cresswell| “Three Ghazals for the Dervish”

Miscellaneous

PoetryDaily Fundraiser
On Poems That Take Inventory at The Storialist
Marcus Clayton blogs about Polaroids, nostalgia, and poetry at Tahoma Review
Holocaust Poems: Interview with Poet and Filmmaker Janet R. Kirchheimer (Part 1)
Meet the Press: Karen Schubert in Conversation with Patty Paine, Editor of Diode Editions
21 Times Tumblr Nailed Poetry Humor at Buzzfeed

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 15)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 32 Poems, Ada Limon, AGNI, Anna Akhmatova, Apparatus Magazine, Barbara Crooker, Best American Poets, Blogalicious, Bluets, craft talks, found poems, Ha Kiet Chau, Harriet poetry blog, Iain Haley Pollock, James Author, Jorie Graham, journals accepting summer submissions, latino poets, Lee Hynes, Maggie Smith, Miss Rumphius Effect, Modigliani, Naomi Shihab Nye, Negative Capability Press, O Magazine, Paula Meehan, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry and Grief, Poetry Foundation, poetry prompts, punctuation and poetry, Susan Rich, the language inside, Timothy Green, visual poems, Wild Violet, women poets

DAY FIFTEEN, Poets. We are half-way through! Today’s round-up of the best in prompts, poems and news from #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth coming at ya.

Best of the Prompts

Negative Capability Press’ “Poems w/ Colors in the Style of Nelson’s Bluets“
The Language Inside’s “Narrative poems after Naomi Shihab Nye”
Pink Ink Press’ “Tabloid Fever prompt”
O magazine’s “Insomniac prompt after Susan Rich”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Adjectives as Titles prompt “
NaPoWriMo’s “Poems That Address Themselves”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Through The Opposition’s Eyes prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s Jumping Into Form: Found Poems”
REWIND Being Poetry’s “Fairytale prompt”
Wild Violet’s “M is for Memory prompt”
REWIND Lee Hynes’ “(Visual) Paper Poems prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Maggie Smith| “Wren Songs”
Ada Limón| “Sharks in the Rivers”
Barbara Crooker| “Peeps”
Ha Kiet Chau| “A Bird’s Eye’s View”
Iain Haley Pollock| “Violets For Your Furs” (w/ commentary)
Jorie Graham| “Coaltrains Crossing the Wyoming Prairie”

Miscellaneous

9 L.A. Poets Giving Latinos a Voice
Punctuation and Poetry at Poets Online
Journals Accepting Summer Submissions at Blogalicious
Paula Meehan: The Poet at 60
Timothy Green’s Take on Submission Fees at Best American Poetry blog
Modigliani and the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova at the Telegraph
Poetry and Grief at Harriet Blog
Poetry as a Way of Thinking: Interview w/ James Author at 32 Poems