#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 2)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Alain Ginsberg, Apparatus Magazine, Audre Lorde, Carolyn Moore, Edward Rathke, Entropy Magazine, Family Friend Poems, Found Poetry Review, Grant Snider, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Influential Poems, Kenneth Koch, Mariah Wilson, Mary Biddinger, Mary Carroll Hackett, Mary Oliver, Natalie Diaz, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Paula Meehan, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry comic, poetry prompts, Poetry School, Rasheed Copeland, Stanley Kunitz, The Onion, Winter Tangerine Review, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Family Portrait prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Lies That You Used to Believe prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Horses prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Body of the planet prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “He said/She said prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Color RED prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Junk Mail/Gov’t forms Erasure prompt”
30dpc’s “New Beginnings prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Ode to TV show prompt”
Poetry School’s “Instagram prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Harbingers of Doom Haiku series prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Ode to a Stranger prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Mary Oliver’s “Peonies” (video)
Stanley Kunitz “Route Six” (w/audio)
Audre Lorde “Recreation”
Kenneth Koch “To Breath”
Rasheed Copeland “Shrimp and Grits”
Carolyn Moore “How to Housebreak a Shadow”
Alain Ginsberg “Body Becomes Black Hole or Magic Trick in Three Acts”
Paula Meehan “Seed”
Natalie Diaz “Post-Colonial Love Poem”
Mary Biddinger “Hard Labor”

Miscellaneous
Grant Snider’s “Poetic Justice” comic in the NY Times
30 Days to Find the Poet in You (at Family Friend Poems)
National Poetry Month Raises Awareness Of Poetry Prevention (at The Onion)
Edward Rathke shares on Influential Poems at Entropy Mag

**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 26)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Amy Lowell, Asian Americans poets, Beastly Verse, Brain Pickings, Claudia Rankine, Ellen Hopkins, Flashbang Writing Studio, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jamaal May, Marianne Moore, Mark Jarman, Mary Biddinger, mslexia, Pablo Neruda, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Robin Scofield, Stories& Slams, the language inside, West Trestle Review, Wild Violet, women poets

The best prompts, poems and news from DAY TWENTY-SIX of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

Mslexia’s “Tiny Square prompt”
The Language Inside’s “Boundaries prompt”
Imaginary Garden with Read Toads “3 for 1 Play it Again prompt”
Flashbang Writing Studio’s “So Good You Can Taste It (after Diane Lockward)”
West Trestle Review “How-To Extended metaphor poems”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Words of Shakespeare prompt”
Stories& Slams’ “Conversations w/ Friends prompt”
Wild Violet’s “W is for Word prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Persona Poems”
Pink Ink Press’ “The Fabrication prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Gwendolyn Brooks| “We Real Cool”
Mark Jarman| “Then Saw the Problem”
Amy Lowell| “Superstition”
Mary Biddinger| “Burying the Apron”
Jamaal May| “Sky Now Black with Birds” (video)
Robin Scofield| “Three Paintings by Monet”
Claudia Rankine| from “You are in the dark, in the car….”
Marianne Moore| “The Fish”

Miscellaneous

Asian-American Poets to Watch at NBC news
Painting the Verbal Landscape: Ellen Hopkins at Write All The Words
Ode to the Captain: Discovering Pablo Neruda at fsgworkinprogress blog
Beastly Verse: From Lewis Carroll to William Blake, Beloved Poems About Animals in Vibrant& Unusual Illustrations at Brain Pickings

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 23)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, best poetry books, Confrontation, Flavorwire, Green Mountains Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Kathleen Kelly, Linebreak, Lyn Lifshin, Margaret Noonan, Mary Biddinger, Matt Morton, Maureen McLane, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, New Yorker, pink ink press, pms poemmemoirstory, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Stories& Slams, West Trestle Review, Wild Violet, women poets

The best prompts, poems and news from DAY TWENTY-THREE of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

Imaginary Garden with Real Toads’ “Legs Prompt”
West Trestle Review’s “Recipe for a Major Life Event prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Historic Poems”
Stories& Slams’ “Lines from Songs prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form: Parody”
Wild Violet’s “T is for Transcendentalism prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Deck of Cards free write”
Pink Ink Press’ “3×3 prompt”
Mslexia’s “Lipgrammatic Prose Poem after Georges Perec”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Matt Morton| “Sonnet with Angels Watching Soccer”
Kathleen Kelly| “Mr. Ninda’s Business” (audio from pms: poemmemoirstory)
Mary Biddinger| “I Was on the Line”
Lyn Lifshin| “What Everything Opening, Pears, Magnolias, Cherry Petals, Apple, Dogwood
Maureen M. Mclane| “For You”

Miscellaneous

Margaret Noonan on Keeping Native Language Alive Through Poetry
50 Best Poetry Books of the Decade So Far at Flavorwire

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 7)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, arthurian legends, artspeak, atlas obscura, Emily Skaja, Gary Soto, George Washington, hatbooks, Jane Hirshfield, John Ashberry, Kimberly Blaeser, Kristin Naca, Martha Silano, Mary Biddinger, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, National Museum of the American Indian, O Magazine, PBS, picture prompts, pink ink press, Poem a Day, poet laureates, Poetic Asides, Poetically Speaking, poetry prompts, poets on twitter, Robert Hass, Sarah Heller, Storybird, Terri Witek, Wild Violet, women poets, Yusef Komunyakaa

Your one-stop source for the best of the prompts, poems and news from DAY SEVEN of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #7: “Elizabeth Moutal’s Mortars and Pestles”
Mslexia “Childhood Utterings Prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Love Poems & Anti-Love poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Sex? poems”
30dpc “Looking Ahead prompt”
Wild Violet “F is for Figure of Speech”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–Senryu”
The Language Inside’s “Everyday Images w/ Repeated Lines”
Pink Ink Press’ “Romance &Affectionate Moments prompt”
PBS’ El Velador (The Nighwatchman): Place-based Poems
National Museum of the American Indian “Strawberry and Chocolate” picture prompt
Atlas Obscura “Natural Wonders: Grand Prismatic Spring” factoid prompt
Storybird “Poetry Roulette”
NaPoWriMo’s “Money poems”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Thuli Zuma| “90trilliion” (video)
Shakespeare| “Sonnet 126” (read by David Tennant)
Yusef Komunyakaa| “The Shortest Night”
Martha Silano| “Peach Glosa”
Gary Soto| “Oranges”
Sarah Heller| “Leaving Egypt”
Emily Skaja| “Self-Portrait with Hawk & Armada”
Jane Hirshfield| “Tolstoy and the Spider”

Miscellaneous

Ashberry on Poetry & Visual Art
Interview w/ Poet Terri Witek
Uplifting Verses from 11 Strong Female Poets
Eating Lorca: Nouns You Can Smell (Kristin Naca at Poetry)
George Washington as Poet
Poetically Speaking: The Surprises of Poetry
38 Gifted Poets on Twitter
Kimberly Blaeser and the Revelatory Power of Poetry
O Magazine’s 12 Books of Poetry to Savor
Interview: Mary Biddinger
Bankhead Visiting Writers: Robert Hass