#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 30)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, Bao-Long Chu, Bookslinger, Brain Pickings, Chronically Creative, Eavan Boland, Erika L. Sanchez, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Jo Bell, Joy Harjo, Lorna Dowell, Marcus Jackson, Mariah Wilson, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Pablo Neruda, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Samiya Bashir, Sara Teasdale, The Writer's Center, women poets

Whether you made it here fast or slow, Congratulations, poemers! It’s the final round-up of the best prompts, poems and news from your #NaPoWriMo/#NPM16/#NaPoMo /#NationalPoetryMonth/#poemaday hashtags.

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Translation Challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Places You’ve Never Been prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Dead-End prompt”
Poetry School’s “Leaving Home prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Celebration prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Hands prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Phone-words prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Endings& Beginnings prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Love prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Maypole prompt”
Chronically Creative’s “Thief prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Sara Teasdale “There Will Come Soft Rains”
Lorna Dowell “Window Display”
Eavan Boland “The Pomegranate”
Marcus Jackson “Pardon My Heart”
Bao-Long Chu “Durian”
Erika L. Sánchez “A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring”
Samiya Bashir “John Henry’s First Real Swing” w/commentary
Pablo Neruda “Keeping Quiet” (read by Sylvia Boorstein)

Miscellaneous

Nearly Unbearable Grace: The Poetry of Joy Harjo (Univ of Cali TV)
Poetry Publishers On Their Favorite Lines (Bookslinger)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 29)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, awp panel, Catherine Doty, Fishouse, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jen Fitzgerald, Jo McDougall, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Naomi Shihab Nye, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Rumpus Poetry, The Writer's Center, women poets, Zooey Ghostly

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “I Remember prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Word Salad prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Haphazard prompt”
Poetry School’s “Britney Spears/Kylie Minogue prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Failures prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Deity Senses prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Inexplicable text prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Exploring Song prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Ars Poetica prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Walls prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Instapoetry  prompt”
The Writer’s Center’s “Puberty & the Cosmos prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Catherine Doty “Breathing Underwater”
Naomi Shihab Nye “Boy and Egg)
Zooey Ghostly “we laid together by the lake/we laid alone by the lake”

Miscellaneous

7 Poets Share Their Favorite Words (Merriam-Webster)
Where to Begin to Revise a Poem Podcast (AWP Panel 2015)
Interview w/ Poet Jo McDougall (Writer’s Almanac)
From the Fishouse 12th Anniversay Celebration/Reading (AWP 2016)
Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #4 (The Rumpus)

**Poets, if you would like to be featured in 2sDay Poems, have your collection reviewed, guest post in the Poetry Lab or blog on any of the Thoughts on Poetry topics, including Foremother Friday or Small Press Interviews, drop me a line at  bonesparkblog@yahoo.com.

#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 21)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, Blogalicious, Catherine Pierce, Cathy Linh Che, Cuban poetry, Found Poetry Review, Ginger Murchison, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jamaal May, Jen Fitzgerald, Kate Foley, Louise Gluck, Mary Caroll-Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Pocket Poets, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Susan Lefler, The Rumpus, The Writer's Center, Tweetspeak Poetry, W.S. Merwin, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Minor Character from a Fairytale/Myth prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Rites of Passage prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Response to Another Poem prompt”
Poetry School’s “Unusual Means prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Climbed Trees prompt”
Found Poetry’s “#erasingwarhol performance challenge”
Apparatus Mag’s “Someone Else’s Shoes prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Elephants prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Art prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Night Time prompt”
Mary Caroll-Hackett’s “Oh Those Eyes prompt”
The Writer’s Center’s “Open Field Prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Catherine Pierce “The Town Dreams the Tornado Apologizes”
Jamaal May “Little Design”
W.S. Merwin “Thanks”
Susan Lefler “Alligator Sun”
Cathy Linh Che “Los Angeles, Manila, Đà Nẵng”

Miscellaneous

Jen Fitzgerald’s Poetry Mixtape #3 (The Rumpus)
The Poet on the Poem: Ginger Murchison (Blogalicious)
Top 10 Pocket Poets & Their Poems (Tweetspeak Poetry)
50 Years of Louise Glück’s appearances in Poetry
Island Verses: A Cuban Poetry Primer

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 17)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, Bill Lavender, Clair Askew, Found Poetry Review, Francine Sterle, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jack Gilbert, Jo Bell, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Mahtem Shiferraw, Mariah Wilson, Michael Schmeltzer, Mona Arshi, Nin Andrews, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Orooj E. Zafar, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Reading Life, The Writer's Center, Vladmir Lucien, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Specialized Dictionary prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Weather in the First Person prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Regret prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Haiku challenge”
Mariah Wilson’s “Color prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “At Sunrise, I Smell/Sense ___ prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Google Translate prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Famous Person prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Power of Three prompt”
30dpc “Elegy/Dirge/Lament prompt”
Kate Foley’s “True Self vs. Online prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Blessings prompt”
Poetry School’s “Couplets challenge”
Lagan Press’ “Constrained Writing #2 prompt”
The Writer’s Center “New Vocabulary (Poetry Game) prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Poem Made of Questions prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Francine Sterle “Dreaming of Picasso”
Vladmir Lucien “Ebb I” (audio w/ commentary)
Mahtem Shiferraw “E is for Eden”
Mona Arshi “The Daughters”
Orooj E. Zafar “The Day I Became My Mother’s Daughter”
Michael Schmeltzer “RE: RE: Personal Ad #6”
Jack Gilbert “Alone”
Nin Andrews “The Artichoke”

Miscellaneous

Reading Life podcast w/ Vivian Small & Bill Lavender (poetry part starts 12:34)
The Verb w/ Poet Claire Askew (BBC Radio 3)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 16)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, 32 Poems, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Amit Majmudar, Amy Lowell, Anchor & Plume, Apparatus Magazine, Bustle, Elisa Diaz Castelo, Fishouse, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indian Country, Indiana Humanities, Jo Bell, Kate Foley, Marge Piercy, Mariah Wilson, native american poetry, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Peggy Freydburg, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry and tech, poetry prompts, poetry t-shirts, QuillsEdge Press, Sylvia Plath, The Writer's Center, Theodora Goss, Tracy K Smith, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Almanac Questionaire prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Who Holds Your Hand prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Past & Present Meet prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Food Establishment prompt”
The Writer’s Center “Elevator prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Guilty Pleasure/Food prompts”
QuillsEdge Press’ “In Winter I Dream of ___ prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Field of Stars prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Farmer’s Market prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Remains prompt”
30dpc “Spring Has Sprung prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Best Dream prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Work prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Message in a Bottle prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Peggy Freydburg “Chorus of Cells”
Amit Majmudar “Recombinant Fairy Tale”
Elisa Díaz Castelo “Ode to the Radiator”
Sylvia Plath “Morning Song”
Tracy K. Smith “The Nobodies”
Amy Lowell “The Peddler of Flowers”
Theodora Goss “Swan Girls”
Aimee Nezhukumatathil “The Body”
Marge Piercy “Leftovers” (w/ commentary)

Miscellaneous

Poetry and Tech: A Happy Collision (MIT)
Poetry Made Me Do It T-shirts from Anchor& Plume
11th Century Wise-Cracking Poet Invented the Listicle As We Know It (Bustle)
Indian Country’s Native Selections for National Poetry Month Part One & Two

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