#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)

**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 12)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Airea D. Matthews, Ann E. Michael, Apparatus Magazine, Aracelis Girmay, Charlotte Matthews, Claire Trevien, Found Poetry Review, Indiana Humanities, Kate Foley, Kiki Nicole, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Michael Ruby, Naomi Shihab Nye, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetic forms, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Robert Frost, Split This Rock, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Index poems prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Limerick Challenge”
Indiana Humanities’ “Childhood Place prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Serious take/Silliness prompt”
Poetry School’s “Superpower prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Escape prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Totem animal prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Borrowed Language prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Art of Celebration/Survival prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Exploring Options prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Favorite Spot prompt”
30dpc’s “Watcha reading prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Write Your Creation Myth challenge”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Naomi Shihab Nye “Making a Fist”
Charlotte Matthews “Night Paver’s Song”
Millicent Borges Accardi “Portrait of a Girl, 1942”
Michael Ruby “Only on Tuesday”
Airea D. Matthews “Swindle”
Ann E. Michael “No White Horses”
Kiki Nicole “The Blacker the Berry”

Miscellaneous

Split This Rock Interview with Aracelis Girmay
Frost’s Granddaughter Discusses New Book About Him (podcast)
13 Ways of Looking at the Poem (Poetic Forms)
On Claire Trévien’s Astéronymes (Oxford Mail)

**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 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 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 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 9)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Ace Boggess, Amy Katherine Cannon, anjie kokan, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, haikus, Jennifer Chang, Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Carson, Kris bigalk, Kristy Bowen, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Naomi Shihab Nye, nonnets, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry app, poetry enterprises, poetry prompts, Renato Rosaldo, Robert Bly, sonnets, the language inside, tweetspeak, women poets

DAY NINE, chickadees!  Having trouble keeping up? Check this blog every afternoon for one-stop prompts, poems and news from #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #9: “Morisot’s Girl in a Boat with Geese“
Mslexia “In the Mood for Love”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Work Poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Things that Scare You prompt”
30dpc “Puntastic prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–More Haiku”
The Language Inside’s “Opposite Emotions prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Coffee Shop Talk & Famous Poet Name-drop”
NaPoWriMo’s “Visual Poems”
Tweekspeak “Grass prompt”
5 Prompts from poetry enterprises
Anjie Kokan’s “I AM prompt” rewind

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Kristy Bowen| “disassembling maria”
Naomi Shihab Nye| “Next Time Ask More Questions”
Robert Bly| “Driving to Town Late To Mail a Letter”
Jimmy Stewart| “A Dog Named Beau” (Johnny Carson Tonight Show video)
Jennifer Chang| “Slept”
Renato Rosaldo| “Midnight Driver”
Amy Katherine Cannon| “Barn Swallows”
Ace Boggess| “Would You Ride A Rocket Into Space?”

Miscellaneous

Enter Sonnets, Nonnets & Haikus in the London Book Fair Poetry Prize
Cossack Review 5 Questions for Poets Interview Series
8 Questions for Poet Lauren Berry (Deep South Mag)
Poems by Heart app

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 6)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, ambassadors for poetry, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, Bryan Thao Worra, Chirta Banerjee Divakaruni, Clayton Villi, Derek Walcott, Diy MFA, Ernest Thayer, hatbooks, index of poetry forms, Joyce Peseroff, Kris bigalk, language is a virus, lesfemmesfollesbooks, many hats, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Naomi Shihab Nye, Natasha Tretheway, National Museum of the American Indian, Patrick Phillips, Phillip Levine, picture prompts, pink ink press, Po-Emotions, Poem a Day, poest collective, poet laureates, Poetic Asides, poetical misprints, poetry in public spaces, poetry prompt generator, poetry prompts, slate poetry podcasts, tweetspeakpoetry, voices of women in american poetry, Wild Violet, women poets, writeshop, Writing Knights Roundtable, Younger Than That Now

DAY SIX, y’all!  The best of the #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth prompts, poems and news coming at ya…………

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #6: “Homer’s The Sick Chicken”
Mslexia “Wrong Hand Translation Prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Things Not as They Appear Prompt”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Choose Your Own Adventure poems”
30dpc “Invisible Sentence prompt”
Wild Violet “E is for Epistle prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–Somonka”
The Language Inside’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Breasts (or other objects) poem”
Writing Knights Roundtable “Vestigial Word: Lemniscate (infinity symbol) poems”
Imaginary Garden w/ Real Toads’ “Seeing Stars Prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “I’m Late, I’m Late prompt”
Kris Bigalk’s “In Answer prompt”
Many Hats’ 25 Prompts page
lesfemmesfollesbooks’ Oldest Bra Persona Poem prompt
Writeshop’s Cinquain prompt
NaPoWriMo’s “Aubade prompt”
Tweetspeak’s “Native Air”
Language is a Virus’ “Writing Prompt Generator”
National Museum of the American Indian “Moonlight Fire” picture prompt

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Joyce Peseroff| “Bluebird”
Patrick Phillips| “Elegy for a Broken Machine”
Ernest Thayer (read by James Earl Jones)| “Casey at the Bat” (video)
Naomi Shihab Nye| “How Do I Know When a Poem is Finsihed?” (video)
Derek Walcott| “from Omeros (Book III: Achille in Africa)”
Clayton Valli| “Dandelions” (ASL video poem)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni| “Cutting the Sun”
Natasha Tretheway| “Elegy for my Father”

Miscellaneous

Slate Poetry Podcasts archive
Poets’ Collective Index to Poetry Forms
Ambassadors for Poetry: Interviews with Three Texas Poet Laureates
Poems for Hunter’s and Anglers
Laotian poet Bryan Thao Worra’s The Tuk-tuk Diaries: Preludes &Postcards (full book on ISSUU)
Guerrero Celebrates First Year as San Antonio’s Poet Laureate
Poet Philip Levine and Degas Give Us An Art Lesson
Poetry in Public Spaces (dverse)
The Voices of Women in American Poetry (video)
The Surprising History of Poetical Misprints

 

 

 

FAME is a Four Letter Word

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Dolly Parton, Emily Dickinson, Eric J. Heller, Fame is a bee, Fame is a four letter word, Famous, Miley Cyrus, Naomi Shihab Nye

In the wake of all this Miley nonsense, I’m contemplating fame and its aftermath.  Here is what Emily Dickinson has to say on the subject:

Fame is a bee.
It has a song --
It has a sting --
Ah, too, it has a wing

Sounds a bit like a two-headed hydra. One that has turned around and nipped Miley in her little twerking a$@!

The thing that makes the whole mess borderline tragic is that the girl really has talent. And I thought that she was moving in the right direction with the release of her cover of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” http://bit.ly/187U6iu.

I thought maybe she would reinvent herself a la Jewel. Though, some would argue about that particular transition.  I kind of like Countrified Jewel myself, so don’t hate.

My advice to Miley is this: never forget what you can do. Tattoo it on your arm and SING!

And on that note, I leave you with this poem by Naomi Shihab Nye:

FAMOUS

The river is famous to the fish.

The loud voice is famous to silence,
which knew it would inherit the earth
before anybody said so.

The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse.

The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.

The idea you carry close to your bosom
is famous to your bosom.

The boot is famous to the earth,
more famous than the dress shoe,
which is famous only to floors.

The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it
and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.

I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.

Okay, maybe one more thing before I sign off. This one is by me:

FAME IS A FOUR LETTER WORD

and it corrupts absolutely, but
unlike its cousin power, it chews
from the inside out and leaves
nothing of you after

**Opening art provided by physicist Eric J. Heller. The featured piece is a sonogram of a Bach chorale played on a piano.  More of Heller’s art can be found in this gallery.