#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 20)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, Ben Brindise, Carolyn Hembree, Claire Trevien, Eavan Boland, Eileen Myles, Erin Lyons, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jo Bell, Katrina Naomi, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Mariah Wilson, Mark Yakich, Mary Caroll-Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Penned in the Margins, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, The Paris Review, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Kenning Challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “What Terrifies You prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “What Goes Unsaid prompt”
Poetry School’s “Destruction& Reconstruction prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “An Ending prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “When the Tea Kettle Sings prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Decimator prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “News stories prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Good Wishes Gone Bad prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Airport muses prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Spring Green prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “The Moment Before prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Urban Legend prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Eavan Boland “The Lost Art of Letter Writing” (video)
Lorna Dee Cervantes “Valentine”
Claire Trevien “Rollright Stones” (audio w/ commentary)
Katrina Naomi “The Way the Crocodile Taught Me” (audio)
Ben Brindise “A Poem to Your Shadow”
Erin Lyons “Like a Girl”

Miscellaneous

Interview w/ Poet Eileen Myles (The Paris Review archives)
The Reading Life podcast w/ La. Poets Mark Yakich & Carolyn Hembree( starts 9:37)

**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.

#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 18)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, Barbara Crooker, Brenda Hillman, Brenda Shaughnessy, C.D. Wright, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jo Bell, Latino poetry, Lithub, Madhuri Blaylock, Mariah Wilson, Mary Caroll-Hackett, Meredith Bergmann, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Sonja Livingstone, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Sound of Home prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Ode to Thing(s) You Can’t Live Without prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Memories of Childhood Toy prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Office poem prompt”
Poetry School’s “Contradictions & Paradoxes prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Poem to Person You Miss prompts”
QuillsEdge Press’ “You as a Fireplace prompt”
Found Poetry’s “3 Word-gathering Assist prompts”
Apparatus Mag’s “Pop Culture Sestina challenge”
Imaginary Garden’s “New Perspective (Surprise) prompt”
30dpc “Strange Objects prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Shame prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Letter to a Planet”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Brenda Hillman “Some Kinds of Forever Visit You”
Meredith Bergmann “Nursery Rhyme”
Madhuri Blaylock “Ghosts of Childhood”
Barbara Crooker “Women”
Brenda Shaughnessy “I Have a Time Machine”

Miscellaneous

Feature on Poet Sonja Livingstone (Mary Carroll-Hackett)
5 New Latino Poetry Books for NPM (NBC News)
Remembering the Great C.D. Wright (LitHub)

**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.