#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 7)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Apparatus Magazine, Betty Adcock, Dear Poet: Write Me, Emma Trelles, Fanny Choi, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Negative Capability Press, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, The City Quill, Vivian Smallwood, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Tritina challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Sit & Observe prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Bracelet prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Memory & Mystery prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Urban __ prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “A Day to Remember prompt”
30dpc’s “Out the Window prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Random Chance prompt”
Poetry School’s “Street Names& Unlikely Characters prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Travel prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Ode to Most Loved Pair of Shoes prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Inner Buzzfeed prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Self-Portrait Cento prompt”
The City Quill’s “Haiku About Low Country Pluff Mud prompt”
Dear Poet: Write Me’s “What the Clouds Hate About Themselves prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “The Last Thing You Lost prompt”
Lagan Press’ “First Line prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Betty Adcock “Topsail Island”
Vivian Smallwood “Cave Woman”
Ellery Akers “Thank You for the Next Two Minutes of My Life”
Emma Trelles “Millificent”
Fanny Choi “Frame”

Miscellaneous

Seattle Poets Name Their Favorite Poems for NPM (Seattle Mag)
Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #1 (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.

Not Just 2: A Plethora of Medusa Poems & a Giveaway

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#ReadWomen2014, 2sDay Poems, Academy of American Poets, Alice Friman, Body of this Death, British Poets, Carol Ann Duffy, Carvaggio, Chris Wauchop, feminist poets, finger tats, Frederick Sandys, giveaway, Louise Bogan, Medusa Poems, Melissa Dickson, Modern American Poetry, Negative Capability Press, Patricia Smith, Poetry magazine, slam poets, Sweet Aegis, Sylvia Plath, The World's Wife, women poets

Frederick Sandys (1829-1904)

 

 

One of my favorite finds from National Poetry Month is Negative Capability author Melissa Dickson’s  SweetAegis:Medusa Poems.  Enjoy Medusa’s Dilemma (and a bonus poem over on the Dead Mule blog. ) Here’s a link to an interview about the collection.

 

 

 

 

Alice Pike Barney, 1892

 

 

 

Louise Bogan’s darker Medusa is from Poetry’s archives.  The full collection  Body of this Death (1923) is available as a FREE download in several formats at archive.org. Find out more about Bogan’s life and career at Modern American Poetry.

 

 

 

 

 

Caravaggio, 1597

 

Carol Ann Duffy’s Medusa is part of The World’s Wife collection and is widely studied in Secondary Schools in the UK. A brief bio from the British Council.  Hear her speak on her fairytale/mythological characters in an hour-long Reflections Of The Poet Laureate lecture.

 

 

 

 

model by Chris Wauchop

 

 

 

Slam poet Patricia Smith’s Medusa is even more dazzling in person.  Get your performance fix from this Hampshire Slam Collective video. 

 

 

 

 

 

Finger Tat by Bang Bang

 

 

The great Sylvia Plath reads her Medusa in a vintage video find. Astute listeners will note that the spoken version differs slightly from that in The Collected Poems.

 

 

 

 

 

***Have a Medusa poem of your own or admire that of another poet? Post in the comments for a chance to win a set of handmade bookmarks with fairytale/mythological themes.

 

 

#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 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 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 19)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 52 blog, A River& Sound, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, Boston Poetry Slam, craft talks, Deirdre Hines, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Food Poems, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Julie Feng, Lavinia Greenlaw, lesfemmesfollesbooks, lunch poems, Mary Cornish, Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, mslexia, Negative Capability Press, Poem a Day, poet interviews, Poetic Asides, Poetry 180, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Rachel Dacus, Saveur, Tony Hoagland, Wild Violet, women poets, Yehuda Amichai, Younger Than That Now

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

Best of the Prompts

Drunk in a Midnight Choir’s “Letter to an Extinct Species prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Landay prompt”
lesfemmesfollesbooks’ “What Breasts are Not & What They Could Be prompt”
Younger Than That Now’s “How to Fail prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Authority Poems “
Negative Capability Press’ “Tootsies prompt”
ARTSPEAK #19 “La Forge’s Fisherman Spearing a Fish”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Google Image prompt”
Imaginary Garden w/ Real Toads’ “The Other Half of the Lemon/Mae West prompt”
Mslexia’s “Memories of [location] and [name of person] prompt”
Wild Violet’s “Q is for Quinzaine”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Rachel Dacus| “The Life of Umbrellas”
Tony Hoagland| “The Word”
Lavinia Greenlaw| “Blue Field” (w audio)
Deirdre Hines| “The Problem with Coats” (video)
Mary Cornish| “Numbers”
Yehuda Amichai| Near the Wall of a House”
Julie Feng| “Heliotropism”

Miscellaneous

A Feast for Bards: 13 Favorite Food Poems at Saveur
Lunch Poems: Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 18)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 52 blog, Anita Endrezze, Apparatus Magazine, Boston Poetry Slam, Chuck Perkins, craft talks, CryptoPo, Ellen Moody, Garrett Hongo, Harriet blog, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Jo Pitkin, Joy Harjo, lunch poems, Lyn Hejinian, Marge Piercy, Michael Dwayne Smith, mslexia, Negative Capability Press, New Orleans poet, pink ink press, Poem a Day, poet interviews, Poetic Asides, poetry foremothers, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, the language inside, Wendy Pratt, Wild Violet, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Urgent Journey prompt”
REWIND 52 blog’s “HOME prompt after Zepeda, Figura or Sheryl St. Germaine”
REWIND Boston Poetry Slam “Urban Myth prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Vowels Poems “
Negative Capability Press’ “Bernadette Mayer Experiments prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Personifying the Muse prompt”
Flashbang Writing Studio’s “Twitter Poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Exploring Music prompt”
The Language Inside’s “Holiday rituals & traditions prompt”
Imaginary Garden w/ Real Toads’ “Words of Nimoy or Pratchett prompt”
Mslexia’s “Eavesdrop prompt”
Wild Violet’s “P is for Prose Poems”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Marge Piercy| “The Scent of Apple Cake”
Jo Pitkin| “Luna Moths”
Anita Endrezze| “This is a Poem About Indians”
Wendy Pratt| “Nan Hardwick Turns Into a Hare”
Joy Harjo| “Insomnia and the Seven Steps to Grace”
Garrett Hongo| “I Got Heaven…”
Michael Dwayne Smith| “How to Grieve”
Chuck Perkins| “Jack”

Miscellaneous

Post-Poetry, Part 1: CryptoPo at Harriet Blog
30 Poetry Foremothers presented by Ellen Moody
Lunch Poems: Lyn Hejinian

#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