#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 9)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Adele Kenny, Alice Major, Apparatus Magazine, Caryl Pagel, Dear Poet: Write Me, Deep South Magazine, Flower Conroy, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Kate Foley, Linda Parsons Marion, Mariah Wilson, mslexia, Naomi Shihab Nye, native american poetry, Nikky Finney, NPM16, Numero Cinq, Patrick Phillips, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Rangi McNeil, Ruth Lepson, Scholastic, Sophya Giudici-Juarez, Tanaya Wilder, Ted Kooser, Visual poetry, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Lines You’re Afraid to Write prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Magazine Images prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Nature’s Wonders prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Hide-out poems prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Happiness prompt”
Poetry School’s “Universe prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Last Time/TV Character Acrostics prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “When I Step Into the ___ prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Erasure poems prompt”
Dear Poet: Write Me’s “Geometric Shape of Goodness prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Where the World Ends, Or Begins prompt”
Mslexia’s “Sestina Challenge”
Winter Tangerine’s “Bad News in a Cheap Motel prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Childhood Memories prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Echo prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Alice Major “Euclid’s Iron Hand”
Linda Parsons Marion “Home Fire”
Rangi McNeil “The Heart is a Foreign Country”
Ted Kooser “Mother”
Flower Conroy “Flushed Brush Strokes Where I Left Imaginary Caresses”
Tanaya Wilder “Back to the Beginning” (video)
Naomi Shihab Nye “300 Goats”
Sophya Giudici-Juarez”Rinforzando”
Caryl Pagel “Red Sky”
Patrick Phillips “Barbershop”
Ruth Lepson “Fielding Dawson Portrait of Cy Twombly”

Miscellaneous

The Beauty & Difficulty of Nikky Finney (NPR)
Scholastic’s Poetry Picks for Beginning Readers
John Bennet Defines Visual Poetry in the Avant Garde (Ohio Poets Assoc)
Native American Poetry Chapbook list

**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 3)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Apparatus Magazine, Black Ocean, book spine poetry, Bookriot, Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, Deborah Ager, Eleni Sikelianos, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Jacar Press, Jayy Dodd, Kate Foley, Khaty Xiong, L.G. Hertz, Lagan Press, Linda Pastan, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, mslexia, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry collections, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Taylor Mali, Trish Hopkinson, Willa Cather, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Fan Letters prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “What the Trees Know prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Classics prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Claiming What’s Yours prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Three___ prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “On Aging prompt”
30dpc’s “Worth the Wait prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Book Launch prompt”
Poetry School’s “Instagram prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “List Poems w/Title prompts”
Mslexia’s “Activities w/Stages& Metaphorical Layers prompt”
Taylor Mali’s “Metaphor-Making Dice prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Spring Weather prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Love Poem to Yourself prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Sense of Touch prompt”
Winter Tangerine “Sweetest Flavor prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Vispo prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Linda Pastan “I Am Learning to Abandon the World”
Willa Cather “Prairie Spring”
L.G. Hertz “That Crouching Spirit”
Khaty Xiong “Pork Rinds, Watered Rice” (w/ commentary)
Jayy Dodd “Ode to Junk, My Own”
Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan “Terzanelle: Manzanar Riot”
Deborah Ager “Mangos in Florida”
Eleni Sikelianos “Make Yourself Happy”

Miscellaneous

Jacar Press No-Fee Submission Call (via Trish Hopkinson)
30 Books of Poetry for Young Readers (Bookriot)
Kwame Alexander on NPR
11 Poetry Collections by Black Writers Everyone Should Read
Shreveport Library (social media) Book Spine contest

**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 1)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Ada Limon, Adele Kenny, artspeak, Beth May, ellen bass, Emi Mahmoud, Found Poetry Review, hatbooks, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, June Jordan, Lagan Press, Margaret Rozga, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Mount Pleasant Poetry Project, mslexia, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Rita Quillen, Scholastic, Shel Silverstein, Sylvia Plath, Ted Kooser, Vivian Shipley, women poets

I am so excited to welcome you to DAY ONE of this year’s National Poetry Month! The number of hashtags AND prompters seems to have doubled this year.  A  good sign, I think. Once again, BoneSpark will be your source for a daily round-up of the best prompts, poems and news from your favorite hashtags #NaPoWriMo/#NPM16/#NaPoMo /#NationalPoetryMonth/#poemaday.

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Lune challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Word Salad prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “April is for Fools & Poets prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Poetry and Power”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Foolish Poems prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Remembrance w/ Neruda prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Generative Activities w/ Patrick Williams”
HATBOOK’s “#NoticePoem prompt”
30dpc’s “New Day, New Dawn prompt”
ARTSPEAK’s “Pissaro Artist’s Garden prompt”
Mslexia/Poetry School’s “Never in a love poem prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Water slide w/ instructions prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Addressing Death prompt”
Mt. Pleasant Poetry Project “10 Ten Words in voice of tree, etc. prompts”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Ellen Bass “Relax”
June Jordan “These Poems”
Margaret Rozga “In the Garden”
Rita Quillen “What the Creek Says”
Emi Mahmoud “Mama” (spoken word)
Beth May “Three Poems about Job Interviews”
Vivian Shipley “Blueprints”
Ada Limon “Service”

Miscellaneous
Interview with poet Ted Kooser interview at Writer’s Almanac
Free Shel Sliverstein Shel-ebration Poetry Workshop Download
Fine-tuning metaphor with Ted Kooser (Scholastic Young Poets guide)
Scholastic’s Master Class with Sylvia Plath (pdf)

 

**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 30)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Anita Endrezze, Ashley Farmer, Cupertino Poet Laureate, Elaine Feinstein, Elizabeth Bartlett, feminist poetics, floodmark poetry, Janaka Stucky, Jane Yeh, Kelli Russell Agodon, Mary Carroll Hackett, Megan Fernandez, mslexia, Nancy Lynee Woo, Negative Capability Press, Ofelia Zepeda, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Robert Wrigley, Tammy Ho Lai Ming, Wild Violet, women poets

The best prompts, poems and news from the LAST DAY of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth. It’s been a great ride. Back to the regular schedule on Sunday.

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Write Backwards prompt”
Floodmark Poetry’s “Hole-Punch Clouds prompt”
Mslexia’s “Object as Witness prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Profound Risks prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Bury the ____  prompt”
Wild Violet’s “Ars Poetica prompt”
Negative Capability Press’ “Chicken prompt”
REWIND Cupertino Poet Laureate’s “I Love My Hair prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Anita Endrezze| “A Crown of White Hair”
Robert Wrigley| “Moonlight: Chickens on the Road”
Ofelia Zepeda| “Pulling Down the Clouds”
Elaine Feinstein| “Lazarus’s Sister”
Nancy Lynee Woo| “21 Ways of Looking at Chicken Heart”
Janaka Stucky| “Recreating a Miraculous Object”
Ashley Farmer| “Women Fix”
Jane Yeh| “Musk-Ox”
Elizabeth Bartlett| “Art Class”

Miscellaneous

Megan Fernandez on Persona Poetry and Feminist Poetics at EKA
Icaruses: Tammy Ho Lai-Ming on Ekphrastic Poetry at World Literature Today
Part & Parcel: Kelli Russell Agodon at the Huffington Post

 

**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 29)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, artspeak, Breda Wall Ryan, Diode, Elizabeth Marshall, Ellery Akers, Erin Belieu, Holocaust Poems, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, James Tate, Jo Harjo, list poems, Maggie Smith, Marcus Clayton, Mary Carroll Hackett, Mary Cassatt, Mary Cresswell, Molly Peacock, mslexia, Patty Paine, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, Poetry Daily, poetry humor, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Storialist, Tahoma Review, the language inside, Wild Violet, women poets

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 28)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Claire Trevien, Dorianne Laux, ELJ Publications, Flashbang Writing Studio, Jane Hirshfield, Maya Angelou, Millissa Alger, mslexia, Negative Capability Press, pink ink press, Poem a Day, poet interviews, Poetic Asides, poetry folio, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Poets&Writers, Salmon Poetry, Seamus Cashman, Stories& Slams, West Trestle Review, Wild Violet, Wislawa Szymborska, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Bridges prompt”
30dpc “Change of Scenery prompt”
Mslexia’s “Ridiculous Self-Portrait prompt”
Negative Capability Press’ “Diamante prompt”
West Trestle Review “Reinvention prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “2forTues Matter/Anti-Matter prompt”
Stories& Slams’ “Newsworthy Villanelles”
Wild Violet’s “Y is for Yadu prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Fast Forward prompt”
The Language Inside’s “Virtues after Kay Ryan prompt”
Flashbang Writing Studio’s “It’s Alive! prompt”
Poets& Writers’ “Musical Inspiration prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Ada Limon| “The Great Blue Heron of Dunbar Road”
Wislawa Szymborska| “Possibilities”
Maya Angelou| “Still I Rise”
Jane Hirshfield| “Each Morning a White Bull Steps Shining Into the World”
Millissa Alger| “Empty Cradleboard”
Seamus Cashman| “I too begin with scaffolding” from the Sistine Gaze(video)
Claire Trevien| “Whales”
Dorianne Laux| “Disturbance”

Miscellaneous

Founder of ELJ Publications Talks Poetry, Emerging Writers and Mental Illness Awareness
Speculating Darkly: A Poetry Folio at Harriet the Blog

#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 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 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 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