#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 3)

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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

 

 

 

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 1)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Big Poetry Book Giveaway, craft essay, Poems I Have Loved, poetry challenges, poetry prompts, poetry tumblr

This is kind of what TWITTER felt like today with all the prompts, poems and helps being flung around for the kick-off of National Poetry Month.  Here’s a guide to a best of the best…………….

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #1: “Baby at Play” (Picture prompt from the National Gallery of Art archives)
Mslexia “Never in a Love Poem love poems”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Resistance Prompt”
Poetry in Motion’s “Letter to Your 15-Year-Old Self”
Tweetspeak “Poetry Jeans”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Fool’s Prompt”
Kris Bigalk’s “Borrowed TIGER to PRAYER”
PoMoSco (Various activities for Badges)
30dpc “Snapshots”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Gabrielle Bates| “Carousel”
Galway Kinnell| “The Bear”
Matthea Harvey| “The Straighforward Mermaid”
Hailey Leithauser |”Was You Ever Bit by a Dead Bee?”
Yehuda Amichai| “Ballad of the Washed Hair”
Susan Rich| “Nocturne”
Dorianne Laux| “A Short History of the Apple”
Rokhl Korn| “On the Other Side of the Poem”
Maggie Smith| “Where Honey Comes From”

Miscellaneous

Big Poetry Book Giveaway
poets and shoes Tumblr
Essay “The Art of Trusting the Invisible:A Manifesto”