#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 3)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Alisha Erin Hillam, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, Dan Musset, Emilia Phillips, Epistolary Poems, Five 2 One Mag, floodmark poetry, Galway Kinnell, irish modernist poets, jewish poems, Jumping Into Form, Lorraine Mariner, Lucille Clifton, Marcela Shulak, May Swenson, Miss Rumphius Effect, Mslexia Challenge, Neruda, Nikki Giovanni, Po-Emotions, Poem a Day, Poeming, Poems I Have Loved, Poetic Asides, poetry challenges, Poetry in Motion, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, poetry tumblr, Shape&Nature Press, Sharngrill Willy, Shel Silverstein, Storybird, visual poems, Wild Violet, women poets, Zedeka Poindexter

DAY THREE coming at ya! Best of prompts, poems and news #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #3: “Manet’s The Railway”
Mslexia “Page 37 Prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Machine Poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Dead Famous Prompt”
Kris Bigalk’s “Hodge-Podge prompt”
Storybird “Obsession”
30dpc “Goodbye, Winter Elegy”
Wild Violet “B is for Blues”
Po-Emotions “Surprise”
Five 2 One Mag’s “Dangling Picture Prompt”
NYPL “Epistolary Poems”
Poetry For All’s Video Prompts
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form-Raccontinos”
Shape&Nature Press’ “A Tree’s Ambitions”
Jarvis Subia’s “This Poem is a Life Jacket”
The Language Inside’s “Homage to a physical attribute a la Lucille Clifton”
Reading to the Core’s “Ode to Common Things in the vein of Neruda”
Floodmark Poetry’s “Bathroom Stall prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Dan Musset| “Eggs”
May Swenson| “Strawberrying”
Shangrilla Willy| “Hunger” (with sound)
Alisha Erin Hillam| “If I Had Twitter in 1998”
Nikki Giovanni| “kidnap poem”
Marcela Shulak| “Ecclesiastes”
Morgan Parker| “99 Problems”
Zedeka Poindexter| “Peach Cobbler” (video)
Galway Kinnell| “Saint Francis and the Sow” (Souncloud)
Emilia Phillips| “Supine Body in Full-Length Mirror, Hotel Room, Upper West Side
Lorraine Mariner| “Poem in Which I Turn 40& Still Admit to Fantasizing about Being In a Band “
Shel Silverstein| “Where the Sidewalk Ends”

Miscellaneous

How to Make a Visual Poem (video)
Conversation w/ Gwendolyn Brooks (Lib. of Congress video)
On Irish Modernist Poet Freda Laughton
Mariana Ruiz Firmat on Dawn Lundy Martin at the operating system
Poems of Jewish Faith and Culture Sampler
Free Download of Poetry Magazine April Issue