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#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 12)

12 Sunday Apr 2015

Posted by BoneSpark Blog in National Poetry Month '15

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Adrienne Rich, Apparatus Magazine, art of being rejected, Bogman's Cannon, book of kells, CantoMundo Poets, coldfront mag, Cordite Poetry, craft talks, Daniel Garcia Ordaz, doireann ni ghriofa, Emma Trelles, Essay Press, Freda Laughton, Hello Kitty poems, Jordan Abel, ken letko, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Negative Capability Press, pink ink press, Poem a Day, poet animal quiz, poet mariachi, Poetic Asides, poetics and identity, poetry and pop culture, poetry prompts, Rae Armantrout, Sandra Faulkner, the language inside, West Trestle Review, women poets, Writing Knights Roundtable

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DAY TWELVE, Beautiful Bards!  BoneSparkblog is here with all the best prompts, poems and news from #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

Mslexia “Biographical Poems in the Third Person”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Damage Poems”
30dpc “It’s a Thin Line prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Plath Vibe prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Prose to Poem prompt”
The Language Inside’s “Working on Voice in the First Person poems”
Writing Knights Roundtable’s “Vestigial Words: Kipe (meaning to steal) prompt”
REWIND The Daily Post’s “Future Sonnets w/ Chiamus prompt”
West Trestle Review’s “Barbie (or other character) poems”
Negative Capability Press’ “Pain Pot prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Doireann Ní Ghriofa| “Cleaving a Puzzle-Tree”
Rae Armantrout| “Exact”
Adrienne Rich| “A Woman Dead in Her Forties”
Jordan Abel| “Orphan”
Sandra L. Faulkner| “When Hello Kitty Registers for the Working Cats Conference, Security Confiscates Her Catnip”
Emma Trelles| “Autorretrato Quintina”

Miscellaneous

FSG asks What’s Your Poet Animal?
The Art of Being Rejected at Book of Kells
On Poetry and Pop Culture at Coldfront
Interview w/ Ken Letko: The Mulch Pile and Germinating the Next Project
Freda Laughton and the Critical History of Women’s Poetry at Bogman’s Cannon
Poet Mariachi Daniel Garcia Ordaz at Corazon Bilingue (radio interview)
On Poetics, Identity & Latinidad: CantoMundo Poets Speak Out

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POETRY LAB: Dark Subjects Made Bright

08 Monday Dec 2014

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Amelia's Magazine, Barbie, Colossal, Cristian Grossi, dark things made bright, Denise Duhamel, Diane Lockward, dVerse Poet's pub, Elsa Mora, fusion of opposites poem, Hello Kitty, Hollie Cook, Kittenchops, list poems, Look Listen Write, Michael Jackson, My Work, papercut art, Paw Powers Activate, poetry lab, poetry writing workshop, pop culture, Postman, Samuel Peralta, Sandra Faulkner, Slave to the Rhythm, The Crafty Poet, Things Every Woman Should Have In Her Closet, women's magazines, women's poetry, works in progress, Yulia Brodskaya

As my creative forces are converging on poetry once again,  I’m actually trying out a technique used in middle school workshops called “Look, Listen, Write“, but with a twist from Diane Lockward’s The Crafty Poet and a side of Samuel Peralta’s dverse Poet’s Pub blog.

The Crafty Poet - cover

In TCP, Diane presents an exercise called “The Fusion of Opposites Poem” (p. 163) that asks one to construct a scene based on lines built on opposites, such as quiet/noisy, hot/cold, bright/dark. She encourages working towards a prose poem, but I wanted to play with list poems as in Peralta’s forms exercise (linked above). images.duckduckgo.com

 

 

Also, I wanted to take something poppish (pop culture-based) and pair it with deeper issues facing women more like Duhamel’s Barbie poems or Sandra Faulkner’s Hello Kitty series.

Applying the middle school workshop model:

LOOKING

I pulled artwork from Colossal, Amelia’s Magazine and KittenChops that had women and this dark vs. bright theme…..

Cristian Grossi
Cristian Grossi
Cristian Grossi
Cristian Grossi
Cristian Grossi
Cristian Grossi
Yulia Brodskaya
Yulia Brodskaya
Yulia Brodskaya
Yulia Brodskaya
Elsa Mora
Elsa Mora
Elsa Mora
Elsa Mora
Seattle Children’s Surgery mural by KittenChops
Seattle Children’s Surgery mural by KittenChops
Paw Powers Activate--Kittenchops
Paw Powers Activate–Kittenchops
Kittenchops
Kittenchops

**Additional portfolio images here: Elsa, Yulia, Cristianand Zaara aka Kittenchops

and paired it with….

LISTENING

to various combinations of these (2) tracks,  which both layer pop music over deeper cultural issues facing women  [*funny how they give such different ‘feels’ to the art]

 

 

then after this immersion, which should take some quality percolating time…

WRITING

I borrowed headlines from some popular women’s magazines–doozies of higher-thinking like: “Perpetual Boyfriend Disappointments Diary” and “Things Every Woman Should Have in Her Closet”  and ran with it.

Here’s one of the Works-In-Progress from the second tag…..

 

THINGS EVERY WOMAN SHOULD HAVE IN HER CLOSET

 

an ill-fitting skeleton

shit-kicking boots stained with bad blood

a roadmap for sacrifices to whatever curtained god you are

currently worshipping

pinking shears for prettying-up broken hearts

nestled beside nuts& bolts & odd bits of timekeeping devices that

shook free of time

failures with exes napping with cats in neatly boxed rows (you know

for rehabilitation)

90’s haircuts sandwiched between diet books so you won’t go there

again (don’t   go   there  again)

dispatches to future selves that sting like papercuts  waiting

waiting with their metallic arms

pinned

—–C.A. LaRue

 

 

Feel like it’s at least a line short in there somewhere, but that’s why its called  W-I-P.   Please feel free to share what you come up with in the comments section or by emailing bonesparkblog@yahoo.com if you’d like to do your own guest post.

Peace out, poetry peeps!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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