#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 17)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Apparatus Magazine, BOMB magazine, Boston Poetry Slam, craft talks, Drunken Boat, Ed Bok Lee, Karen Marie Christa Minns, Kay Ryan, Kimiko Hahn, Liesl Muller, Matthew Zapruder, Miss Rumphius Effect, Monica Ferrell, Negative Capability Press, pink ink press, Poem a Day, poet interviews, Poetic Asides, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Sherman Alexie, the language inside, tweetspeak, West Trestle Review, women poets

The best prompts, poems and news from DAY SEVENTEEN of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

West Trestle Review’s “Self Portrait with ____ prompt”
Boston Poetry Slam “Quaint Tech prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Swing Poems “
Negative Capability Press’ “Dare to Bitch prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Frantically Searching prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Social Media style prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form: Acrostics”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Bits of Whimsy prompt”
The Language Inside’s “Place, TIme, Change IN A YEAR prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Karen Marie Christa Minns| “Winter”
Matthew Zapruder| “Birds of Texas”
Liesl Mueller| “Naming the Animals”
Monica Ferrell| “The Coin of Your Country”
Kay Ryan| “Tenderness and Rot”
Ed Bok Lee| “Several Mountains”
Kimiko Hahn| “Sparrow” (w/ audio)
Sherman Alexie| “The Pow Wow at the End of the World”

Miscellaneous
Speaker in a Future Age: Ed Bok Lee on Poetry, Places and the Death of Tongues
Cooling the Surface, Tending the Cracks: An Interview with Kay Ryan
Interview w/ Vievee Francis at Muzzle
Artists in Conversation: Kimiko Hahn at BOMB

#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

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 9)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, Ace Boggess, Amy Katherine Cannon, anjie kokan, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, haikus, Jennifer Chang, Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Carson, Kris bigalk, Kristy Bowen, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Naomi Shihab Nye, nonnets, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry app, poetry enterprises, poetry prompts, Renato Rosaldo, Robert Bly, sonnets, the language inside, tweetspeak, women poets

DAY NINE, chickadees!  Having trouble keeping up? Check this blog every afternoon for one-stop prompts, poems and news from #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #9: “Morisot’s Girl in a Boat with Geese“
Mslexia “In the Mood for Love”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Work Poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Things that Scare You prompt”
30dpc “Puntastic prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–More Haiku”
The Language Inside’s “Opposite Emotions prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Coffee Shop Talk & Famous Poet Name-drop”
NaPoWriMo’s “Visual Poems”
Tweekspeak “Grass prompt”
5 Prompts from poetry enterprises
Anjie Kokan’s “I AM prompt” rewind

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Kristy Bowen| “disassembling maria”
Naomi Shihab Nye| “Next Time Ask More Questions”
Robert Bly| “Driving to Town Late To Mail a Letter”
Jimmy Stewart| “A Dog Named Beau” (Johnny Carson Tonight Show video)
Jennifer Chang| “Slept”
Renato Rosaldo| “Midnight Driver”
Amy Katherine Cannon| “Barn Swallows”
Ace Boggess| “Would You Ride A Rocket Into Space?”

Miscellaneous

Enter Sonnets, Nonnets & Haikus in the London Book Fair Poetry Prize
Cossack Review 5 Questions for Poets Interview Series
8 Questions for Poet Lauren Berry (Deep South Mag)
Poems by Heart app