#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 27)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Ann E. Michael, Anti-Slavery Poems, Apparatus Magazine, Barbara Crooker, Bethany Schultz Hurst, Celina Villagracia, Chana Bloch, fairytale poems, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Maria Hummel, Marin Poetry Center, Miss Rumphius Effect, Mouthfeel Press, mslexia, Negative Capability Press, Nora Dauenhauer, Ocean Vuong, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Rattle, Stories& Slams, Storyscape, Terrance Hayes, Tom C. Hunley, West Trestle Review, Wild Violet, Will Nixon, women poets, Younger Than That Now

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

Best of the Prompts

Apparatus Magazine’s “Pop Culture Sestinas”
30dpc “Waiting with Form prompt”
Imaginary Garden with Read Toads “Recipe prompt”
Negative Capability Press’ “Body poems after Laura Riding”
West Trestle Review “Strangers photo prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Looking Back prompt”
Stories& Slams’ “Monday Quatrains”
Wild Violet’s “Uses of X prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Hay(na)ku prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “The Confessional Poem”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form: Concrete Poems”
Younger Than That Now’s “No Makeup prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Nora Dauenhauer| “Tlingit Concrete Poem (1984)”
Will Nixon| “National Poetry Month”
Bethany Schultz Hurst| “Birds, Disappearing”
Celina Villagarcia| “Cayendo Sobre el Piso”
Ocean Vuong| “Someday I’ll Love” (w/ audio)
Tom C. Hunley| “i can’t sleep so i’ll tell you a story”
Terrance Hayes| “Black Confederate Ghost Story”
Kate Bernadette Benedict| “Wonders of Biotech”
Barbara Crooker| “Sometimes, I am Startled Out of Myself,”
Ann E. Michael| “During Wartime”

Miscellaneous

Marin Poetry Center Presents Chana Bloch & Maria Hummel (video)
Poems of Anglo-African &National Anti-Slavery Standard
Top 10 Fairytale Poems at Tweetspeak

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 25)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, AGNI, Apparatus Magazine, Elean Ni Chulleanain, Flashbang Writing Studio, Galway Kinnell, Kristen Tracy, Li-Young Lee, Louise Erdrich, lunch poems, Marilyn Robertson, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Negative Capability Press, pink ink press, Ploughshares, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Stories& Slams, the language inside, Wild Violet, William Butler Yeats, women poets, Write About Now

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

Best of the Prompts

The Language Inside’s “Fantasies of Running Away after Maxine Kumin”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Journalistic Observer prompt”
Negative Capability Press’ “Dreaming in the Still of Night prompt”
Write About Now’s “Make-up poems”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Sea Poems”
Stories& Slams’ “Spring Haikus”
Wild Violet’s “V is for Viewpoint prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Clerihew prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Dream within a Dream prompt”
Mslexia’s “Spam mail into Poem prompt”
30dpc “Imagery of Spring prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Eiléan Ní Chulleanáin| “Incipt Hodie”
Li-Young Lee| “This Hour and What is Dead”
Louise Erdrich| “Windigo”
Marilyn Robertson| “On Reading a Poem by Phillis Levin”
William Butler Yeats| “When You Are Old”
Galway Kinnell| “Oatmeal” (w/ audio)
Kristen Tracey| “Hanging Up”

Miscellaneous

7 British Poets Read from Ploughshares’ Transatlantic Issue (video)
Lunch Poems: Luis Rodriguez

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 24)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Anne Sexton, Claudia Emerson, Daniel Greene Smith, Deep South Magazine, Denishe Duhamel, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Flashbang Writing Studio, Harriet blog, HeartSoup, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Karenne Wood, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Kenyon Review, Kristen Berkey-Abbott, Latino Art and Ekphrasis, LSU Press, lunch poems, Marly Youmans, Mary Karr, Miss Rumphius Effect, Naomi Shihab Nye, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry book giveaway, poetry prompts, Stay Thirsty Magazine, Stories& Slams, Wild Violet, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

Apparatus Magazine’s “Celestial Bodies/Skies Above prompt”
Imaginary Garden with Real Toads’ “Go Grimm prompt”
Flashbang Writing Studio’s “Remix Poems”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Moment Poems”
Stories& Slams’ “Imitations prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form: Poems of Apology”
Wild Violet’s “U is for Utterance prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Parody/Satire prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Alter Ego/Evil Twin prompt”
HeartSoup’s “Ruin Micropoem prompt”
30dpc “Poems in Dialogue prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Marly Youmans| “I Heard Their Wings Like the Sound of Many Waters”
Naomi Shihab Nye| “Red Brocade”
Kristin Berkey-Abbott| “Demands of Dough”
Claudia Emerson| “Daybook”
Kathryn Stripling Byer| “Ripe” (from Black Shawl)
Daniel Greene Smith| “Framing Hammer”
Karenne Wood| “The Naming”

Miscellaneous

A Conversation with Poet Denise Duhamel at Stay Thirsty Magazine
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan Reflects on a Poetic Career at Deep South Magazine (w/ GIVEAWAY!!)
Poetry is Going Extinct, Gov’t Data Show at Washington Post
Latino Art and Ekphrasis at Harriet the Blog
Anne Sexton painting: Self-Portrait
Lunch Poems: Mary Karr (video)

#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 22)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, C.D. Wright, craft talks, Dead Poets Society, Deep South Magazine, Dorianne Laux, Emily Bedard, Flashbang Writing Studio, Guerilla Poetry, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Lisa Ann Sandell, Luci Brock-Broido, Mary Oliver, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Natalie Diaz, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetically Speaking, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, Poetry Northwest, poetry prompts, Sarah Heller, Shane Rhodes, Stories& Slams, Susan Stewart, West Trestle Review, Wild Violet, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

Stories& Slams’ “Cancer Sonnets”
Flashbang Writing Studio’s “Praise Poems after Christopher Smart”
West Trestle Review’s “First Person POV Historical Figure prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Nature Poems”
ARTSPEAK #22: “Peto’s Straw Hat, Bag and Umbrella”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Elements of Nature prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form: Apostrophe/Poems of Address”
Wild Violet’s “S is for Sevenling prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Pastoral poems”
Pink Ink Press’ “Poems about Home”
Imaginary Garden with Real Toads’ “Perfect Love Poem w/ Julia Bird’s Formula”
Mslexia’s “First Time prompt”
30dpc’s “Let’s Get Physical prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Mary Oliver| “Sleeping in the Forest”
Susan Stewart| “Four Questions Regarding the Dreams of Animals”
Natalie Diaz| “Top Ten Reasons Why Indians Are Good at Basketball”
Shane Rhodes| “Still Life with Apple” (w/ commentary)
Sarah Sloat| “Grassland” (video)
Dorianne Laux| “How to Sleep”

Miscellaneous

Emily Bedard on Reading Luci Brock-Broido in Mexico at Poetry Northwest
Understanding Poetry clip from Dead Poets Society
Talking Guerilla Poetry with C.D. Wright at Deep South Magazine
Poetically Speaking with Lisa Ann Sandell at Miss Print

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 21)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Ampersand podcast, Anne Harding Woodworth, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, craft talks, Degas, Distinguished Writers, Dorianne Laux, Flashbang Writing Studio, floodmark poetry, G.C. Waldrep, Jessica Goodfellow, Kenzie Allen, Kevin Young, Mark Doty, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Natalie Diaz, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Rabbi Rachel Barenblat, The Art of Reading (Poetry) Well, the language inside, West Trestle Review, Wild Violet, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

Flashbang Writing Studio’s “Golden Shovel prompt”
West Trestle Review’s “Talking Pet prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “What You Are/What You Are Not prompt “
ARTSPEAK #21: “Degas’ The Dance Lesson”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Treasured Keepsakes prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Persona poems”
Wild Violet’s “R is for Repetition prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Erasure prompt”
Floodmark Poetry’s “Word List prompt”
The Language Inside’s “Transformation/Masks/Costume prompt”
Mslexia’s “Objects that Belonged to Your Parents prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Jessica Goodfellow| “Rain”
Anne Harding Woodworth| “Empty Nest”
Natalie Diaz| “Grief Work”
Kenzie Allen| “Pathology”
G.C. Waldrep| “Settlement Song”
Dorianne Laux| “Bed”
Rabbi Rachel Barenblat| “Day 17 (of the Omer): Taste & See”

Miscellaneous

Dorianne Laux and Kevin Young: Distinguished Writers Series at Wellesley College (video)
The Art of Reading Well: Poetry as an Art & Craft at dark ecologies
Ampersand: Poets& Writers podcast 1 ( Interview w/ Mark Doty)

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 17)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Apparatus Magazine, BOMB magazine, Boston Poetry Slam, craft talks, Drunken Boat, Ed Bok Lee, Karen Marie Christa Minns, Kay Ryan, Kimiko Hahn, Liesl Muller, Matthew Zapruder, Miss Rumphius Effect, Monica Ferrell, Negative Capability Press, pink ink press, Poem a Day, poet interviews, Poetic Asides, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Sherman Alexie, the language inside, tweetspeak, West Trestle Review, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

West Trestle Review’s “Self Portrait with ____ prompt”
Boston Poetry Slam “Quaint Tech prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Swing Poems “
Negative Capability Press’ “Dare to Bitch prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Frantically Searching prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Social Media style prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form: Acrostics”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Bits of Whimsy prompt”
The Language Inside’s “Place, TIme, Change IN A YEAR prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Karen Marie Christa Minns| “Winter”
Matthew Zapruder| “Birds of Texas”
Liesl Mueller| “Naming the Animals”
Monica Ferrell| “The Coin of Your Country”
Kay Ryan| “Tenderness and Rot”
Ed Bok Lee| “Several Mountains”
Kimiko Hahn| “Sparrow” (w/ audio)
Sherman Alexie| “The Pow Wow at the End of the World”

Miscellaneous
Speaker in a Future Age: Ed Bok Lee on Poetry, Places and the Death of Tongues
Cooling the Surface, Tending the Cracks: An Interview with Kay Ryan
Interview w/ Vievee Francis at Muzzle
Artists in Conversation: Kimiko Hahn at BOMB

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 16)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Adrian Blevins, AGNI, Black Poets, Books on the Nightstand, Boston Poetry Slam, Cleaver magazine, craft talks, crime poetry, Eric Nelson, Flashbang Writing Studio, found poems, Holocaust Poetry, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Jeremy Freedman, Jynne Martin, macaroni verse, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, native american poetry, Negative Capability Press, Nikki Giovanni, On Being blog, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, poetry of witness, poetry prompts, Pooky Poetry, Rita Ann Higgins, Rita Dove, science poems, Sestinas, Sherman Alexie, terzanelles, Theodore Roethke, tweetspeak, W.S. Merwin, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

Boston Poetry Slam “Directions for Putting Inanimate Objects to Sleep prompt”
REWIND 52 blog’s “Macaroni verse (dual language) prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Science Poems “
Negative Capability Press’ “Documentary Poems”
Pink Ink Press’ “There’s something misleading about clocks prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Terzanelles”
Flashbang Writing Studio’s “Back and Forth prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form: Sonnets w/ template”
Mslexia “One Sentence poems”
Imaginary Garden w/ Real Toads’ “Visionary Art prompt”
30dpc’s “Fake Commencement poems”
REWIND Pooky Poetry’s “Poems featuring the Opening & Closing of Doors prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Tax Form prompt”
Tweetspeak” “Sestina prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Eric Nelson| “Apostrophe to Apostrophe”
Rita Dove| “Ach, Wien” (w/ audio)
Theodore Roethke| “Elegy for Jane”
Jeremy Freedman| “The Duck Lady”
Nikki Giovanni| “Ego Tripping” (video)
W.S. Merwin| “Thanks”
Rita Ann Higgins| “Be Someone”
Adrian Blevins| “How to Cook a Wolf”
Sherman Alexie| “Steel Anniversary”

Miscellaneous

20 Black Poets You Should Know (and Love) at The Root
Celebrating National Poetry Month w/ Jynne Martin podcast at Books on the Nightstand
Catalog of Crime Poetry at The Five-Two blog
Native American Poetry Sampler at Poetry mag
Holocaust Poetry: The Poetry of Bearing Witness at On Being

#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

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 14)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 32 Poems, Adele Kenny, Aimee Nez, Apparatus Magazine, craft talks, Diane Lockward, Endicott Studios, Heavy Feather Review, Karen Skolfield, Kaveh Akbar, Lawrence Schimel, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Mary Alexander Agner, Miss Rumphius Effect, Negative Capability Press, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry Foundation, poetry prompts, science and poetry, the language inside, The Review Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Tristan Tzara, Wallace Stevens, Wild Violet, women poets

The best of the prompts, poems and news from DAY FOURTEEN of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth. I hope you’re still writing.

Best of the Prompts

Poetic Asides P-A-D “2forTuesday honest/dishonest prompt “
NaPoWriMo’s “Dialogue Poems”
Negative Capability Press’ “Family Photo Prompt”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Destination prompts”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s Jumping Into Form: List Poems”
REWIND 32Poems’ “Love Poem as a Traffic Ticket or Other Official Documents”
REWIND “Lockward’s Word Chain prompt” at The Music In It blog
Tristan Tzara’s “Dadaist Cut-Up Poems prompt”
Wild Violet’s “L is for Lanterne prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “The End of Something prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Lawrence Schimel| “Journeybread Recipe”
Karen Skolfield| “How to Locate Water on a Deserted Island”
Kwame Dawes| “Tornado Child”
Mary Alexander Agner| “Jump the Chromosome”
Wallace Stevens| “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”
Aimee Nezhukumatathil| “Self Portrait as C-Section Scar”

Miscellaneous
Virtuosic Metaphors: Interview w/ Lee  Ann Roripaugh at Heavy Feather Review
Giving Poets Room to Speak Meaningfully: Chat w/ Kaveh Akbar at The Review Review