#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 29)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, awp panel, Catherine Doty, Fishouse, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jen Fitzgerald, Jo McDougall, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Naomi Shihab Nye, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Rumpus Poetry, The Writer's Center, women poets, Zooey Ghostly

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “I Remember prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Word Salad prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Haphazard prompt”
Poetry School’s “Britney Spears/Kylie Minogue prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Failures prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Deity Senses prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Inexplicable text prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Exploring Song prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Ars Poetica prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Walls prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Instapoetry  prompt”
The Writer’s Center’s “Puberty & the Cosmos prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Catherine Doty “Breathing Underwater”
Naomi Shihab Nye “Boy and Egg)
Zooey Ghostly “we laid together by the lake/we laid alone by the lake”

Miscellaneous

7 Poets Share Their Favorite Words (Merriam-Webster)
Where to Begin to Revise a Poem Podcast (AWP Panel 2015)
Interview w/ Poet Jo McDougall (Writer’s Almanac)
From the Fishouse 12th Anniversay Celebration/Reading (AWP 2016)
Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #4 (The Rumpus)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 28)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, Derek Walcott, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jean Bleakney, Jericho Brown, Kate Foley, Linda Hogan, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Maureen Doallas, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry apps, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Story Poems prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Tritina Challenge”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Important __ prompt”
Poetry School’s “Proverb/Aphorism prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Alliteration prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Third Wish  prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Intersections prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Humor prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Exploring Color prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “What Children Know prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Real Bio  prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Fluency prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Linda Hogan “The History of Red” (video)
Jean Bleakney “On Seeing a Poet at the Filling Station”
Derek Walcott “Love After Love” (read by Jon Kabatt-Zinn)

Miscellaneous

Poet Jericho Brown on Questioning the Status Quo (NPR)
Top 5 Poetry Apps Android &Apple
Call For Work: NightBalletPress Poetric Tribute to Prince
Maureen Doallas On a Trio of Upcoming Art&Poetry Related Exhibitions

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 27)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, Charlotte Austin, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jo Bell, Lindsay Tigue, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Monica de la Torre, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, poets laureate, QuillsEdge Press, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Rumpus Poetry, Tess Taylor, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Long Lines prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Souvenirs prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Take-off poems prompt”
Poetry School’s “Apology for Imminent Action Prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Myth prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “From the Feet  prompt”
Found Poetry’s “4 prompts from G. Santos”
Apparatus Mag’s “Can’t Live W/out__ prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Favorite music prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Convergence prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Old Ones prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Way of Tea prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Second Thoughts prompt”
The Writer’s Center’s “Malfunctions prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Doireann Ní Ghríofa “A Jaw, A Jar”
Ari Banias “A Sunset”
Kathleen Flenniken “Thimbleberry”

Miscellaneous

1962 Syliva Plath Interview w/ Peter Orr (Modern American Poetry)
Irish Poet John O’Donohue on the Inner Landscape of Beauty (On Being)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 26)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, Charlotte Austin, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jo Bell, Lindsay Tigue, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Monica de la Torre, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, poets laureate, QuillsEdge Press, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Rumpus Poetry, Tess Taylor, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Call& Response prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “4 prompts centered around numbers”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Love/Anti-Love prompt”
Poetry School’s “On Location Prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Meeting Someone New prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Next Spring, I Refuse to__ prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Generative Obstruction w/ Constraints prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Choose Your Own Adventure prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Parents Sonnet prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Converse w/ a Musical Work prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Escape prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Purple Rain prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Lindsay Tigue “We are a System of Ghosts” w/ commentary
Charlotte Austin “Ten Things About Love”
Monica de la Torre “How to Look at Mexican Highways”

Miscellaneous

10 Facts About Poets Laureate for NPM (Mental Floss)
Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat w/ Tess Taylor
Non-Binary Rev. Seeks Sherlock “Study in Scarlet” Poetry & Fiction (Paying mkt)
Rowan Ricardo Phillips: Poet as Translator, Translator as Poet (Words W/out Borders)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 25)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, CavanKerry, Fishouse, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Jo Bell, Joyce Sutphen, Kate Foley, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Lynn Pattison, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Native American Poets, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Orlando White, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry podcasts, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Tinderbox Poetry, Tweetspeak Poetry, women poets, Words on a Wire

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Lines from Another Poem prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Ode to Practicing prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Exercise poems prompt”
Poetry School’s “Definitions Prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Getting Up Early prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “This is What I Build prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Homophonic-Interpretation prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Conversation w/ Mark-Makers prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Argument poem prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Advertisement poems prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Walking prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Missed Connections prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Where You Come From prompt”
Tweetspeak Poetry’s “Celebrity Pillows prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Jeanne Marie Beaumont “Letter from Limbo”
Laurie Ann Guerrero “Brownies of the Southwest: Troop 704”
Joyce Sutphen “A Bird in County Clare”
Orlando White “The i is a Cricket”
Lynn Pattison “Cleaning the birdhouse”

Miscellaneous

Your Favorite Poems About Food& Farming (NPR)
Words on a Wire podcast w/ Ada Limón

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 24)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, Cherry Smith, Diane Beth Garden, Ellery Akers, Found Poetry Review, Indiana Humanities, Irish poets, Jo Bell, Kate Foley, Laura Tohe, Lit Hub, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Monica Youn, Native American Poets, Nin Andrews, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Pacific Islander poets, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Mix& Match prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Dream Visitors prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Lost& Regained prompt”
Poetry School’s “A4 Prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Poem to a Crush prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “The Wind’s Always Talking About__ prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Erasure + prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Treasured Possessions prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Museum Visit prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Plein Air Word Painting prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Makers prompt”
Kate Foley’s “What Terrifies You prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Diane Beth Garden “Measure to Movements”
Ellery Akers “The Word That is a Prayer”
Nin Andrews “My Invisible Valentine”
Cherry Smyth “Evensong”
Laura Tohe “Half-Light”

Miscellaneous

Six Pacific Islanders Poets You Should Know (Lit Hub)
The New Yorker Poetry Podcast w/ Monica Youn

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 23)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, Brain Pickings, Deborah Landau, Found Poetry Review, Franny Choi, Harpoon Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jehanne Dubrow, Jo Bell, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Pablo Neruda, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Roisin Kelly, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Sonnet Challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “If I Ran the World prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Footwear Poems prompt”
Poetry School’s “Ghazal Challenge”
Mariah Wilson’s “Describe an Animal prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “(Un)expected Journeys prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Jouet’s petit récapitul portatif prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Celestial Bodies/Skygazer prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Things Shakespearean prompt”
Lagan Press “Sunrise/Sunset prompt”
Jo Bell’s “First Time prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “What You Like Best prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Returning prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Pride in a Weakness prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Franny Choi “Weight”
Maggie Smith “You Could Never Take a Car to Greenland”
Jehanne Dubrow “Eastern Shore”
Pablo Neruda “Love For This Book”
Deborah Landau “I Don’t Have a Pill for That”
Roisin Kelly “Robert’s Cove”

Miscellaneous

How Nabokov Met His Love & Won Her Over With a Poem (Brain Pickings)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 22)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Alice Ostriker, Apparatus Magazine, Barrelhouse, Eavan Boland, Elizabeth Bishop, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jeffrey McDaniel, Jenna Le, Jo Bell, Kathryn Simmonds, Langston Hughes, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, R.A. Villanueva, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Earth Day prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Favorite Recipe prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Star__ prompt”
Poetry School’s “Writing People prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “(Dead) Famous Person prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Mirror, Mirror prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Computational Poetry prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Element of Nature prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “So I Can Dance prompt”
Christian Gerhard Buehler’s “Princely prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Life Ambitions List prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Work Activities prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Importance of Music prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Alice Ostriker “Utopian”
Kathryn Simmonds “April”
R.A. Villanueva “When Doves”
Elizabeth Bishop “A Cold Spring”
Langston Hughes “The Weary Blues”
Jeffrey McDaniel “The First Straw”

Miscellaneous

Poet Spotlight: Jenna Le on Whales, Womanhood, and the Writing Life
Call for Prince tribute poems& essays at Barrelhouse

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 15)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, Eleanor Swanson, Fay Dillof, Found Poetry Review, gary snyder, Gregory Pardlo, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jill Khoury, Jo Bell, Jordan Walsh, Kate Asche, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Ofelia Zepeda, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, QuillsEdge Press, sijo, Sundress Publications, The City Quill, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Doubles prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Revisiting Peake’s prompt generator”
Indiana Humanities’ “Portrait Poem challenge”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “4 to 8 prompt”
Poetry School’s “Night Setting prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Tumblr User Names prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “My mother’s hands, eyes prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Appreciating Hated Text challenge”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Maker of Your Own Song prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Image Search prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Wasteland Fibonacci free verse challenge”
30dpc “Twitter-sized prompt”
The City Quill’s “Page 15 verb prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Favorite places prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Toys prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Locked Doors prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Fay Dillof “Black Ants”
Jordan Walsh “How an Inuit Jigs”
Kate Asche “Lullaby”
Eleanor Swanson “I Love You, Says the Heart”
Ofelia Zepeda “Riding the Earth”

Miscellaneous

Interview with Poet Gary Snyder (The Writer’s Almanac)
The Elements of a Sijo (Writing& Ruminating)
Poetry Lessons with Gregory Pardlo (Brian Lehrer Show)
Interview with Jill Khoury (Sundress Publications)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 14)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Alice Walker, Apparatus Magazine, Czeslaw Milosz, David Ignataw, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jane Kenyon, Jen Fitzgerald, Jo Bell, Juan Felips Herrera, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Leslea Newman, Lyn Hejinian, Mariah Wilson, Marianne Moore, Mary Carroll Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poet Envy Chain, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Public Books, QuillsEdge Press, Tania Runyan, The City Quill, The Rumpus, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “san san Challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Tree Names prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Memories of a Board Game prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Time-out prompt”
Poetry School’s “Banned Activities prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Caught in a Storm prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “If These Windows Could Talk prompt”
Found Poetry’s “First Hand Experience prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Wandering prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Let’s Write About Sex prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Substitution prompt”
30dpc “Artifact prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Difficult to Love prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Laudation challenge”
Winter Tangerine’s “Words from Another Poem prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Lesléa Newman “Looking at Her”
Lyn Hejinian “A name trimmed with colored ribbons”
Jane Kenyon “Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks”
David Ignataw “The Bagel”
Czeslaw Milosz “Dedication”
Tania Runyan “The Bee Box”
Alice Walker “If There Was Any Justice” (video)

Miscellaneous

Voices& Visions: Marianne Moore Documentary
Juan Felipe Herrera Named to Second Term as Poet Laureate (NY Times)
Jen Fitzgeralds’s Poetry Mixtape#2: Poets on Poetry& Art (The Rumpus)
A Poetry Envy Chain (Public Books)

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