#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 5 )

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Heirloom Seed Names prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Road Signs prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Villanelle challenge”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Singing Place prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Experienced/Inexperienced poems prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Sound(s) prompt”
30dpc’s “Triolet Failures prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Vices prompt”
Poetry School’s “Instagram prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “10 Lines prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Hairbrushing Memory/Ode to Hair prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Guilty Pride prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Replicate the Movement of a Song prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Mind Connections prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “The Sound of Silence prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Carl Phillips “For Night to Fall”
Wendell Berry “Peace of Wild Things”
Paula Cunningham “Aubade”
Anne Carson “Short Talk on Trout”
Rita Dove “Transit”
Maya Angelou “On the Pulse of Morning” (video)

Miscellaneous

Chile Through Pablo Neruda’s Eyes (BBC Travel)
Interview with Poet G.C. Waldrep at Permafrost
The South in Verse: April Poetry Picks (NC’s Our State Mag)
Carolyn Smart on Careen, her Bonnie &Clyde inspired poetry collection (cbcradio)
Reflections on Writing Poems from Film w/ Youth (free guide)
Using Persona Poetry to “humanize the abstractions of poverty, war, racism” (free guide)

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#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