#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 6)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, ambassadors for poetry, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, Bryan Thao Worra, Chirta Banerjee Divakaruni, Clayton Villi, Derek Walcott, Diy MFA, Ernest Thayer, hatbooks, index of poetry forms, Joyce Peseroff, Kris bigalk, language is a virus, lesfemmesfollesbooks, many hats, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Naomi Shihab Nye, Natasha Tretheway, National Museum of the American Indian, Patrick Phillips, Phillip Levine, picture prompts, pink ink press, Po-Emotions, Poem a Day, poest collective, poet laureates, Poetic Asides, poetical misprints, poetry in public spaces, poetry prompt generator, poetry prompts, slate poetry podcasts, tweetspeakpoetry, voices of women in american poetry, Wild Violet, women poets, writeshop, Writing Knights Roundtable, Younger Than That Now

DAY SIX, y’all!  The best of the #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth prompts, poems and news coming at ya…………

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #6: “Homer’s The Sick Chicken”
Mslexia “Wrong Hand Translation Prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Things Not as They Appear Prompt”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Choose Your Own Adventure poems”
30dpc “Invisible Sentence prompt”
Wild Violet “E is for Epistle prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–Somonka”
The Language Inside’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Breasts (or other objects) poem”
Writing Knights Roundtable “Vestigial Word: Lemniscate (infinity symbol) poems”
Imaginary Garden w/ Real Toads’ “Seeing Stars Prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “I’m Late, I’m Late prompt”
Kris Bigalk’s “In Answer prompt”
Many Hats’ 25 Prompts page
lesfemmesfollesbooks’ Oldest Bra Persona Poem prompt
Writeshop’s Cinquain prompt
NaPoWriMo’s “Aubade prompt”
Tweetspeak’s “Native Air”
Language is a Virus’ “Writing Prompt Generator”
National Museum of the American Indian “Moonlight Fire” picture prompt

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Joyce Peseroff| “Bluebird”
Patrick Phillips| “Elegy for a Broken Machine”
Ernest Thayer (read by James Earl Jones)| “Casey at the Bat” (video)
Naomi Shihab Nye| “How Do I Know When a Poem is Finsihed?” (video)
Derek Walcott| “from Omeros (Book III: Achille in Africa)”
Clayton Valli| “Dandelions” (ASL video poem)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni| “Cutting the Sun”
Natasha Tretheway| “Elegy for my Father”

Miscellaneous

Slate Poetry Podcasts archive
Poets’ Collective Index to Poetry Forms
Ambassadors for Poetry: Interviews with Three Texas Poet Laureates
Poems for Hunter’s and Anglers
Laotian poet Bryan Thao Worra’s The Tuk-tuk Diaries: Preludes &Postcards (full book on ISSUU)
Guerrero Celebrates First Year as San Antonio’s Poet Laureate
Poet Philip Levine and Degas Give Us An Art Lesson
Poetry in Public Spaces (dverse)
The Voices of Women in American Poetry (video)
The Surprising History of Poetical Misprints

 

 

 

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 5)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Amorak Huey, anne bradstreet, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, Corey Marks, Diy MFA, easter, hatbooks, Heid E. Erdrich, Jane Yeh, Jose Angel Araguz, Library of Congress, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Natioanl Museum of the American Indian, picture prompts, pink ink press, Po-Emotions, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, room mag, Sierra Golden, spotlight on us hispanic writers, titling poems, Traci Brimhall, Wild Violet, women poets, Writing Knights Roundtable, yeats, Younger Than That Now

#NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth DAY FIVE prompts, poems and news all in one place. Dig in!!!

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #5: “Callot’s Cat Watching Caged Bird”
Mslexia “Goblin Fruit prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Vegetable Poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Echo poems”
30dpc “Routine Ramblings”
Wild Violet “D is for Dimeter (forms)”
Po-Emotions “Disgust”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–Triolets w/ Jane Yolen”
The Language Inside’s “Introduction poems in the vein of Billy Collins”
Writing Knights Roundtable “Vestigial Word: Flitterwochen”
Younger Than That Now’s “Random Number prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Culinary Delights”
RT Diy MFA Brief Guide to Prose Poems &Postcard Prompt
RT OctPoWriMo 2014 Poetry Revolution prompt
National Museum of the American Indian picture prompt

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Sierra Golden| “Tango”
Heid E. Erdrich| “Last Snow”
Traci Brimhall translated by Erika Meitner| “Refuge(e)
Jane Yeh| “The Robots” [Scroll down}
Jennifer Gresham| “Anatomy”
Corey Marks| “Dumb Luck”
Amorak Huey| “This is Not a Love Poem for April From Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”
Jose Angel Araguz| “Superhero”

Miscellaneous

Spotlight on US Hispanic Writers
After the Light bulb Moment: Titling Your Poem
How Yeats Turned ‘Easter 1916’ Into a Political Anthem
ROOM mag’s NPM (Can Women)Reading List

 

 

 

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 4)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Aimee Nez, artspeak, brigit pegeen kelly, contemporary poets, entropy mag, Fair use of poetry, female empowerment, gary snyder, hatbooks, Ioanna Veronika Warwick, Johnny Depp, Kerouac, Library of Congress, litbridge, Liz Kay, lunch poems, marianne boruch, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Po-Emotions, Poem a Day, poems of american identity, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Rickey Laurentiis, Sandra Cisneros, the language inside, Wild Violet, women poets, Women writers, writing knights

DAY FOUR, peeps! The best of the best in prompts, poems and news from #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #4: “Courbet’s The Black Rocks of Troubille”
Mslexia “Nightwriter prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Departure Poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “27,7 Launch”
30dpc “Animal Instincts”
Wild Violet “C is for Character (POV)”
Po-Emotions “Anger”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–Décima w/ Margarita Engle”
The Language Inside’s “Routine poems in the vein of Li Young-Lee”
Floodmark Poetry’s “Ocean of Tranquility quote+painting”
Writing Knights Roundtable “Vestigial Word: Interfenestration”
Bullish Ink “Paint Chip Poetry”
John Hewitt’s Big Page of Prompts (Poewar)
50 Prompts from LitBridge

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Brigit Pegeen Kelly| “Song”
Marianne Boruch| “Pencil”
Li Young-Lee| “Pillow”
Kerouac (read by Johnny Depp)| “Mad Road Driving”
Sandra Cisneros| “Cloud”
Ioanna-Veronika Warwick| “Third Language”
Aimee Nez||”Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia”
Kay Ryan| “Spiderweb”
Rickey Laurentiis| “Southern Gothic” (w/ audio)

Miscellaneous

Carney guests at EKA “Blood, Body, Breath and the Living Poem”
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry
Entropy Mag’s “Where to Submit April& May”
Necessary Utterance: Poetry as Cultural Force (Library of Congress video)
Lunch Poems: Gary Snyder (video)
Poems of American Identity: Readings and Discussions with Contemporary Poets

 

 

 

#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

 

 

 

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 2)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30/30 project, Apparatus Magazine, Big Poetry Book Giveaway, Carol Ann Davis, craft essay, Drunk in Midnight Choir, Jessica Piazza, Jumping Into Form, Megan Falley, Miss Rumphius Effect, Mslexia Challenge, Po-Emotions, Poem a Day, Poems I Have Loved, Poetic Asides, Poetically Speaking, poetry challenges, Poetry in Motion, Poetry postcards, poetry prompts, poetry tumblr, Sherman Alexie, Storybird, Tupelo Press, West Trestle Review, Wild Violet, Wislawa Szymborska, writing tips

Bringing you the best of DAY TWO prompts, poems and news #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #2: “Sewing Chair” (Picture prompt from the National Gallery of Art archives)
Mslexia “Coin Sense-idents”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Secrets Prompt”
Poetry in Motion’s “Feeling Lucky”
Megan Falley’s “Stories from Your Childhood”
Apparatus Magazine’s “News Crawl”
Kris Bigalk’s “Peaceful Storm Metaphor”
Storybird “Magic”
30dpc “Dust off the Dictionary”
West Trestle Review “Personification Prompt”
Wild Violet “A is for Ars Poetica”
Drunk in a Midnight Choir “5 Words”
Po-Emotions “Fear”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form-Renga”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Sherman Alexie| “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”
Carol Ann Davis| “Easter Morning With Magic Markers”
Jessica Piazza| “Cafe Terrace at Night”
Wislawa Szymborska| “Metaphysics”
Thomas Sayers Ellis|”All Their Stanzas”

Miscellaneous

Tips to Make Every Word Count in Your Poem
Poetry Magazine Podcast: “Cast Poems in the River and Tell Them You Remember”
Please Excuse This Poem’s “Poets as Teenagers” Series (Dorothea Lasky)
Tupelo Press 30/30 Project
Poetically Speaking: Terra Elan McVoy Talks Emily Dickinson
Sign Up For Poetry Postcards From Silver Star School students