#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 25)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, CavanKerry, Fishouse, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Jo Bell, Joyce Sutphen, Kate Foley, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Lynn Pattison, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Native American Poets, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Orlando White, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry podcasts, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Tinderbox Poetry, Tweetspeak Poetry, women poets, Words on a Wire

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Lines from Another Poem prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Ode to Practicing prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Exercise poems prompt”
Poetry School’s “Definitions Prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Getting Up Early prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “This is What I Build prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Homophonic-Interpretation prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Conversation w/ Mark-Makers prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Argument poem prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Advertisement poems prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Walking prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Missed Connections prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Where You Come From prompt”
Tweetspeak Poetry’s “Celebrity Pillows prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Jeanne Marie Beaumont “Letter from Limbo”
Laurie Ann Guerrero “Brownies of the Southwest: Troop 704”
Joyce Sutphen “A Bird in County Clare”
Orlando White “The i is a Cricket”
Lynn Pattison “Cleaning the birdhouse”

Miscellaneous

Your Favorite Poems About Food& Farming (NPR)
Words on a Wire podcast w/ Ada Limón

**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 20)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Amiri Baraka, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, Ava Leavell Haymon, Carolynn Caddy, contemporary irish women poets, Corey Marks, craft talks, Fishouse, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Jericho Brown, Julia Alvarez, Maria Popova, Mark Strand, Molly Spencer, Orlando White, Poem a Day, Poethead, Poetic Asides, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Wild Violet, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

West Trestle Review’s “Through the Eyes of Your Nemesis prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “My (blank), the (blank) TITLE prompt “
ARTSPEAK # “Van Gogh’s Flowerbeds in Holland”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Fireside Yarn prompt”
Imaginary Garden w/ Real Toads’ “What’s Your Name? prompt”
Wild Violet’s “Stream of Consciousness Poems after Barbara Guest”
REWIND Adele Kenny’s “Food poetry prompt”
REWIND Poem Virtual’s “Domestic Poems after Kevin Prufer’s Seeds”
REWIND Cupertino Poet Laureate’s “Monday, Monday poems”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Molly Spencer| “Survival Guide for the Girl Trying to Avoid Capture”
Jericho Brown| “N’em”
Ava Leavell Haymon| “What the Witch Wanted” (video)
Carolyn Caddy| “Editing the Moon”
Mark Strand| “Dreams” (read by Maria Popova)
Julia Alvarez| “Hairbands”
Marilyn Chin| “How I Got That Name”
Orlando White| “Circle Shape”
Mary Robinson| “January, 1795”

Miscellaneous

Four Poets on the Legacy of Amiri Baraka at Lit Hub
An Index of Contemporary Irish Women Poets

2sDay Poems Does the Chicken Dance with RED HEN

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2sDay Poems, African American poet, Anna Lee Walters, Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, Bone Light, But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, Cave Canem, Circle Shape, Claudia Rankine, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Orlando White, poets of color, Red Hen Press, The Body Deformed by Tidal Forces

Red Hen Press, a small literary press out of Los Angeles, is one of my favorite sources for poetry.  Their collections are expertly done with a wide representation of voices and styles.  Today’s selections come from two poets of color who brought out collections with RHP in 2009 and 2012.

 

Orlando White is a Navajo poet ( Dine’ of the Naaneesht’ezhi Tabaahi and born for the Naakai Dine’e) with a BFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University. Bone Light(Red Hen 2009) was his debut collection. 

CIRCLE SHAPE

Trace a circle on top of another. Both are alike but do not mean the same thing.
Divide zero by zero: both are not something on either side of its given place.
Listen to the clock without numbers, the sound of something not written on.
Write the letter O; see the straight-line curve one end into the other.
Use the color_________to fill in the black dot at the end of a thought.
Without empty form there would be no given fixed point: the center of zero.
The letter L bends white on paper. But the letter O lends itself to be bent by space.
The outline of a zero should roll off the paper after it is written.
The center of black: blank shaped like a circle. Do not think outside of this.

 

 

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram , a former Cave Canem fellow and a graduate of the writing programs at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also brought our her debut collection with Red Hen. Her book But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (Red Hen 2012) won RHP’s 2010 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, judged by Claudia Rankine.

 

The Body Deformed by Tidal Forces

Darkness still here, hunkered against the trees.
Spring so uneasy this year.
No matter morning’s boundary culling our bodies,
another romantic passage assaults us!
O limp future centered on this body!
In the model solar system, planets suspend & twirl
as if from a spider’s whirl.
The quantum in backpedal, in decline, spring so ungripping
this year. Bored mouth. Bored fingers.
The umpteenth day/night running like such—
truly, truly—this troubling with physics!
Not still winter, not yet anything.

O thuggish awakening.
All planets but this one were named after gods.

 

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