#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 8)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 100 Scope Notes, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Apparatus Magazine, Connie Voisine, Dear Poet: Write Me, Elizabeth Koch, Eve L. Ewing, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Instagram poetry, Jen Karetnick, Joy Harjo, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Leticia Hernandez Linares, Lucille Clifton, Mariah Wilson, May Sarton, NPM16, Patricia Smith, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, poets' day jobs, QuillsEdge Press, The City Quill, Valerie Nies, Winter Tangerine, women poets, Words on a Wire

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Flower prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Word Salad prompts”
Imaginary Garden’s “Women’s Freedom prompt”
Elizabeth Koch’s “Everyday Item You Can’t Live Without prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Doodle poems prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Being Alone prompt”
30dpc’s “20min walk prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Tap Into Your Dreams prompt”
Poetry School’s “Afterlife prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Rewritten Endings prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Yearning lays its hands prompt”
Kate Foley’s “All About Family prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Something You Can’t Remember prompt”
The City Quill’s “Plant Perspective prompt”
Dear Poet: Write Me’s “Your Opposite prompt”
100 Scope Notes’ “Book Spine Centos prompt”
Winter Tangerine “Write What the Walls Whisper prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Morning Reflections prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Valerie Nies “How to Throw Like a Girl”
May Sarton “Metamorphosis”
Lucille Clifton “What the Mirror Said” (read by Bill Murray)
Joy Harjo “A Poem to Get Rid of Fear” (video)
Joy Harjo “A Map to the Next World”
Jen Karetnick “A Note to GK Chesterton”
Eve L. Ewing “to the notebook kid”
Patricia Smith “Hip-Hop Ghazal”

Miscellaneous

12 Famous Poets and Their Day Jobs (Mashable)
8 Writers Who Are Taking Poetry Beyond the Page
Words on a Wire broadcast with poet Leticia Hernández-Linares
Words on a Wire broadcast with poet Connie Voisine

**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.