#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 19)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, African poets, Apparatus Magazine, Beth Gylys, Black Applause, Carol Ann Duffy, Cindy Veach, Diane Gillam Fisher, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jo Bell, Lagan Press, Louise Gluck, Mariah Wilson, Mary Caroll-Hackett, Molly Vogel, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Rachel Abramowitz, Sara Peters, The City Quill, Togara Muzanenhamo, Winter Tangerine Review, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Didactic Poetry challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Repeated Words prompt”
The Writer’s Center’s “Giving Voice to Setting prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Cool/Uncool poem prompt”
Poetry School’s “Bestiary prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Survival prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Night’s Quietest Sound prompt”
Found Poetry’s “English to English Translation prompts”
Apparatus Mag’s “Sense of Dread prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Local Vernacular prompt”
The City Quill’s “Favorite song prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Favorite Word prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Fan Letter prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Wonder of a Moment prompt”
30dpc’s ” Day is Done prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Last One Standing prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Poem Inspired by the News prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Sara Peters “Babysitters”
Roger Bonair Agard “for you who could know me who might love what i love”
Molly Vogel “Lot’s Wife”
Cindy Veach “French Seams”
Beth Gylys “What Drives Us”
Diane Gillam Fisher “Pink Hollyhocks” (w/ commentary)

Miscellaneous

Interview w/ Poet Roberto Montes (Luna Luna Mag)
Rachel Abramowitz on Louise Glück (The Operating System)
Profile of British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy (tspoetry)
10 Contemporary Poets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Review of Zimbabwean poet Togara Muzanenhamo’s collection Gumiguru (Black Applause)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 15)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, Eleanor Swanson, Fay Dillof, Found Poetry Review, gary snyder, Gregory Pardlo, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jill Khoury, Jo Bell, Jordan Walsh, Kate Asche, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Ofelia Zepeda, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, QuillsEdge Press, sijo, Sundress Publications, The City Quill, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Doubles prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Revisiting Peake’s prompt generator”
Indiana Humanities’ “Portrait Poem challenge”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “4 to 8 prompt”
Poetry School’s “Night Setting prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Tumblr User Names prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “My mother’s hands, eyes prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Appreciating Hated Text challenge”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Maker of Your Own Song prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Image Search prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Wasteland Fibonacci free verse challenge”
30dpc “Twitter-sized prompt”
The City Quill’s “Page 15 verb prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Favorite places prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Toys prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Locked Doors prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Fay Dillof “Black Ants”
Jordan Walsh “How an Inuit Jigs”
Kate Asche “Lullaby”
Eleanor Swanson “I Love You, Says the Heart”
Ofelia Zepeda “Riding the Earth”

Miscellaneous

Interview with Poet Gary Snyder (The Writer’s Almanac)
The Elements of a Sijo (Writing& Ruminating)
Poetry Lessons with Gregory Pardlo (Brian Lehrer Show)
Interview with Jill Khoury (Sundress Publications)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 14)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Alice Walker, Apparatus Magazine, Czeslaw Milosz, David Ignataw, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jane Kenyon, Jen Fitzgerald, Jo Bell, Juan Felips Herrera, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Leslea Newman, Lyn Hejinian, Mariah Wilson, Marianne Moore, Mary Carroll Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poet Envy Chain, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Public Books, QuillsEdge Press, Tania Runyan, The City Quill, The Rumpus, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “san san Challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Tree Names prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Memories of a Board Game prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Time-out prompt”
Poetry School’s “Banned Activities prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Caught in a Storm prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “If These Windows Could Talk prompt”
Found Poetry’s “First Hand Experience prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Wandering prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Let’s Write About Sex prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Substitution prompt”
30dpc “Artifact prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Difficult to Love prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Laudation challenge”
Winter Tangerine’s “Words from Another Poem prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Lesléa Newman “Looking at Her”
Lyn Hejinian “A name trimmed with colored ribbons”
Jane Kenyon “Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks”
David Ignataw “The Bagel”
Czeslaw Milosz “Dedication”
Tania Runyan “The Bee Box”
Alice Walker “If There Was Any Justice” (video)

Miscellaneous

Voices& Visions: Marianne Moore Documentary
Juan Felipe Herrera Named to Second Term as Poet Laureate (NY Times)
Jen Fitzgeralds’s Poetry Mixtape#2: Poets on Poetry& Art (The Rumpus)
A Poetry Envy Chain (Public Books)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 13)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, Carole Stone, Elizabeth Acevedo, Elizabeth Koch, Found Poetry Review, Graywolf Press, Gretchen Marquette, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Irish women poets, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Leah Umansky, Lorna Shaugnessy, Mariah Wilson, Mark Strand, Mary Carroll Hackett, N. Scott Momaday, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poethead, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Tess Taylor, The City Quill, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Fortune Cookie prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “List Poem in the Style of Camile Guthrie prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Family Holiday prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Last ___ prompt”
Poetry School’s “Animal Habitats prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Lament prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Aubade to Yourself prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Phrases from Travel Websites prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Miracle of Birth prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Confronting Fears prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Reconciliation prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “If These Walls Could Talk prompt”
The City Quill’s “What Makes You Anxious prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Going Back in Time prompt”
Elizabeth Koch’s “Instincts prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Bad Birthdays prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Mark Strand “Eating Poetry”
Gretchen Marquette “Doe”
Carole Stone “A Woman’s Face”
Leah Umansky “This is a Real Elegy”
Lorna Shaugnessy “Moving Like Anemones”
N. Scott Momaday “The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee”

Miscellaneous

Art Talk with Poet and 2016 Poetry Out Loud Host Elizabeth Acevedo (NEA)
Poems that Celebrate Life on the Farm: Tess Taylor’s Work&Days (NPR)
7 Playful Tactics to Get Kids Writing Poetry (Edutopia)
Four Voices Confront the Absence of Women in Irish Poetry

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 11)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, Bruno Rios, Found Poetry Review, Harry Baker, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Kate Foley, Kim Addonizio, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Maureen Doallas, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poet Laureate, Poetic Asides, poetry comics, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Safia Elhillo, Sherman Alexie, Tanka Feminism, The City Quill, The Rumpus, Wallace Stevens, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Close Description w/ Surprise Turn prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Ode to an Animal prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Soviet Kitsch (movie posters) prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Defensive poem prompt”
Poetry School’s “Found Gun prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Random Article Blackout prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “State of Justice prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Astrological Self-Portrait prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Being Water prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Constrained Writing prompt”
The City Quill’s “Favorite Greek God prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Favorite Adjectives & Nouns prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Sci-fi Elements prompt”
30dpc’s “Case of the Mondays prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “From the Mirror’s Perspective prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Harry Baker “A Love Poem for Lonely Prime Numbers”
Safia Elhillo “Self-Portriat with Yellow Dress”
Wallace Stevens “The Emperor of Ice Cream”
Kimiko Hahn “Not Nothing”
Sherman Alexie “The Powwow at the End of the World”
Joan Naviyuk Kane “Asymmetry”
Kim Addonizio “Here”

Miscellaneous

A Poetry Comics Discussion (The Rumpus)
A Little Tanka Feminism (Kelly Fineman)
Monday Muse Profile on CT’s Poet Laureate (Maureen Doallas)
Sound Portrait of Bruno Rios (Houston Public Media)

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#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

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 7)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Apparatus Magazine, Betty Adcock, Dear Poet: Write Me, Emma Trelles, Fanny Choi, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Negative Capability Press, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, The City Quill, Vivian Smallwood, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Tritina challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Sit & Observe prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Bracelet prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Memory & Mystery prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Urban __ prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “A Day to Remember prompt”
30dpc’s “Out the Window prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Random Chance prompt”
Poetry School’s “Street Names& Unlikely Characters prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Travel prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Ode to Most Loved Pair of Shoes prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Inner Buzzfeed prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Self-Portrait Cento prompt”
The City Quill’s “Haiku About Low Country Pluff Mud prompt”
Dear Poet: Write Me’s “What the Clouds Hate About Themselves prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “The Last Thing You Lost prompt”
Lagan Press’ “First Line prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Betty Adcock “Topsail Island”
Vivian Smallwood “Cave Woman”
Ellery Akers “Thank You for the Next Two Minutes of My Life”
Emma Trelles “Millificent”
Fanny Choi “Frame”

Miscellaneous

Seattle Poets Name Their Favorite Poems for NPM (Seattle Mag)
Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #1 (The Rumpus)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 6)

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#FridayReads, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Apparatus Magazine, awp16 speculative poetry panel, Bob Hicok, Breda Wall Ryan, Bustle, Cassandra de Alba, Danez Smith, Dear Poet: Write Me, Denise Levertov, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, e.e. cummings, Food52, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Janvi Mahnot, Kate Foley, Langston Hughes, Lois Roma-Deeley, Mariah Wilson, Marthe Reede, Mary Alexandra Agner, Mary Carroll Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, The City Quill, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Food poems prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “List Poem about a Body of Water prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Compound Words prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Rebirth and Wonder prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Ekphrastic prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “I am in Need of Music prompt”
30dpc’s “Repeated Themes prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Yarns Around a Campfire prompt”
Poetry School’s “Instagram prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Acrostic prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Meals Made from Memory prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Things to Remember prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Bonus (Ten) prompts w/ Noah Eli Gordon”
The City Quill’s “Pet Sonnet prompt”
Dear Poet: Write Me’s “Out of Your Pocket, On Fire at Your Feet prompt”
Food52’s “Not Sad Lunch Poem prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Write From Perspective of a Lake prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Marthe Reede “Of the Shulamite”
Langston Hughes “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
Danez Smith (excerpt from) “Song of the Wreckage”
Cassandra de Alba “what the deer carry”
Lois Roma-Deeley “Praise Song For She Who Would Clean the World”
Mary Alexandra Agner “Apparition”
e.e. cummings “let it go”
Denise Levertov “Aware”
Janvi Mahnot “Important Sentences in Romantic Relationships”
Bob Hicok “Elegy with Lies”

Miscellaneous

7 Poems You Didn’t Know Were About Sex (Bustle)
AWP16 Panel: Women Writers in Speculative Poetry and Fiction (via @webbish6)
Breda Wall Ryan On Writing (Poetry Collection) In a Hare’s Eye (The Irish Times)

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