Week Three #readNDN #2sDayPoems

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#readNDN, #readwomen, Catching Cooper, Copper Canyon Press, Crazy Brave, DiveDapper, Joy Harjo, Mojave, Muscogee, Natalie Diaz, Native American Heritage Month, native american poetry, Native American Women's Poetry, NPR, Patterns in Mudhills, Secrets from the Center of the World, Stephem Strom, University of Arizona Press, When My Brother Was An Aztec, women poets

I am so impressed by Natalie Diaz (Mojave). Not only does her poetry make me feel like I’m falling off a cliff–in a good way, of course–but her work in preserving the Mojave language gives me hope for other endangered Native tongues.

If you don’t have her first collection When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon, 2012),get it. And be anticipating the release of her second collection, also with with Copper Canyon, that she teased in this late 2015 interview at DiveDapper. You’ll find links to several of her new poems there.

But the one I wanted to share with you today is “Catching Cooper“. You won’t be the same after you read it.

 

Okay, if you’ve spent any time on this blog, you’ve seen this woman. Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) opened the door to Native American poetry for me and continues to be my poet-hero. Get all her books immediately, seriously, like right now.

The poem I’m sharing today is from Secrets From the Center of the World (Univ. of AZ press), which pairs her poems with the photography of Stephen Strom.

This is “Patterns in Mudhills“.

OMG! So beautiful. Check out her interview at NPR about finding her voice and her memoir Crazy Brave. Oh yeah, she reads a few poems there too.

 

 

Week Two #readNDN #2sDayPoems

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#readNDN, #readwomen, Allison Hedge Coke, American Life in Poetry, Bee Poems, Burn, Cell Traffic, Cherokee, Coffee House Press, Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum of Archaic Media, Heid E. Erdrich, Huron, If Bees Were Few, MadHat Press, Metis, Michigan State University Press, Natalie Diaz, Native American Heritage Month, native american poetry, Native American Women's Poetry, Off-Season City Pipe, Ojibwe, Pen Ten interview, Poetry Foundation, Stung, The Change, University of Arizona Press, University of Minnesota, women poets

Award-winning poet and activist Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Huron/Metis/mixed Cherokee, SE Native) writes the type of poetry that  is seared into the mind like a daguerreotype at the shortest  exposure. Fittingly, her latest collection is titled Burn (MadHat Press, 2017) and is an illustrated poetic endeavor. How cool is that?

Haven’t actually got my hands on it yet, but I hope to love it as much as Dog Road Woman (Coffee House Press, 1997), or Off-Season City Pipe (Coffee House, 2005).

Trust me, you’ll love her work. Here’s  “The Change,” straight outta Dog Road Woman, hosted at the Poetry Foundation archives.

 

So you’ve heard me talk about Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe) before.  ICYMI, I highly recommend her 2012 collection Cell Traffic (Univ. of AZ Press). The jury is still out on her latest Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum of Archaic Media (Michigan State Univ Press). It’s kinda trippy, what with its fairies, QR codes that link to film poems and other weird, but good, shit.

Before you dive into that book, try some of her more earthy work, like “Stung,” from the anthology If Bees Were Few: A Hive of Bee Poems. You’lll want Santa to bring you that one.

And while you’re out there floating in cyberspace, check out this Pen Ten interview with Heid E. and her sister, fellow writer Louise Erdrich, where the ladies answer questions (presented by Natalie Diaz) on writing in general and space for the voices of indigenous women.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week One #readNDN #2sDayPoems

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#readNDN, #readwomen, Compass, DiveDapper, Graywolf Press, Inupiaq, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Lakota, Layli Long Soldier, Milk Black Carbon, Native American Heritage Month, native american poetry, Native American Women's Poetry, Northshore Press, Pitt Poetry, The Cormorant Hunter's Wife, West Texas Talk, Whereas, women poets

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the next four #2sDayPoems posts will highlight work by my favorite native writers.

I’ve been a fan of  Joan Naviyuk Kane (Inupiaq) since 2009 when her first collection The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife was released by Northshore Press. As you’ll see from the link, it’s now available in a second edition as part of the Alaska Literary Series. Anyhow, I was delighted to find (and share with you) her poem “Compass,” which is read to you by the author in both English and Inupiaq.

You can hear a few more of her poems scattered throughout this interview with West Texas Talk. Her latest book Milk Black Carbon, released early this year, should be at the top of your wishlist.

 

Layli Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota) definitely blew me away with her debut collection Whereas (Graywolf Press).  It is currently a finalist for the National Book Award and has been reviewed and recommended by The New York Times, the LA Times and several other national publications.  And though, you may have heard her name connected to the pipeline issue at Standing Rock, she insists that she never set out to be a political poet.

That statement is in spite of the fact that the book grew out of news of the buried apology to Native Americans in the Defense Appropriations Act of 2009. Boy was that thing buried! Read this excerpt from the collection for yourself, and you’ll see that she is an extraordinary talent, who arrived on the scene just in time.

Also, be sure to check out  this interesting interview on poetry as prayer, or this one at DiveDapper for more of her encouraging words.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 16)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, 32 Poems, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Amit Majmudar, Amy Lowell, Anchor & Plume, Apparatus Magazine, Bustle, Elisa Diaz Castelo, Fishouse, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indian Country, Indiana Humanities, Jo Bell, Kate Foley, Marge Piercy, Mariah Wilson, native american poetry, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Peggy Freydburg, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry and tech, poetry prompts, poetry t-shirts, QuillsEdge Press, Sylvia Plath, The Writer's Center, Theodora Goss, Tracy K Smith, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Almanac Questionaire prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Who Holds Your Hand prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Past & Present Meet prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Food Establishment prompt”
The Writer’s Center “Elevator prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Guilty Pleasure/Food prompts”
QuillsEdge Press’ “In Winter I Dream of ___ prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Field of Stars prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Farmer’s Market prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Remains prompt”
30dpc “Spring Has Sprung prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Best Dream prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Work prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Message in a Bottle prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Peggy Freydburg “Chorus of Cells”
Amit Majmudar “Recombinant Fairy Tale”
Elisa Díaz Castelo “Ode to the Radiator”
Sylvia Plath “Morning Song”
Tracy K. Smith “The Nobodies”
Amy Lowell “The Peddler of Flowers”
Theodora Goss “Swan Girls”
Aimee Nezhukumatathil “The Body”
Marge Piercy “Leftovers” (w/ commentary)

Miscellaneous

Poetry and Tech: A Happy Collision (MIT)
Poetry Made Me Do It T-shirts from Anchor& Plume
11th Century Wise-Cracking Poet Invented the Listicle As We Know It (Bustle)
Indian Country’s Native Selections for National Poetry Month Part One & Two

**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 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