#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 4 )

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Adrienne Rich, Apparatus Magazine, Billy Collins, feminist poets, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Jane Hirshfield, Kate Foley, Kelly Tsai, Leanne Howe, Major Jackson, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Native American Poets, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry collections, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Rachel Piercy, tweetspeakpoetry, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Walt Whitman, Winter Tangerine Review, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Cruelest Month prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Ode to Indulgences prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Nature Poems prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “What We Love prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Distance poems prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Peace of Mind prompt”
30dpc’s “Risks/Rewards prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Passion prompt”
Poetry School’s “Instagram prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Younger Self prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Never Seen Such a Sky prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Places/People You Used to Know prompt”
Found Poetry’s “WordBlocks prompt”
Tweetspeakpoetry’s “Pirate’s Life prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “First Thing You Kept From Your Parents prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Walt Whitman “I Hear America Singing”
Rachel Piercy “Brief Encounter”
Jane Hirshfield “My Life Was the Size of My Life”
Billy Collins “Aristotle”
Leanne Howe “Indians Never Say Goodbye”
Kelly Tsai “Wai-Puo (For My Bad-ass Grandma)” (video)
Victor Hernández Cruz “Here is an Ear to Hear”
Major Jackson “Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park”

Miscellaneous

Adrienne Rich’s “Feminist Awakening” (New Republic)
Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute Hosts Three Native American Poets (Podcast)

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#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 6)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, ambassadors for poetry, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, Bryan Thao Worra, Chirta Banerjee Divakaruni, Clayton Villi, Derek Walcott, Diy MFA, Ernest Thayer, hatbooks, index of poetry forms, Joyce Peseroff, Kris bigalk, language is a virus, lesfemmesfollesbooks, many hats, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Naomi Shihab Nye, Natasha Tretheway, National Museum of the American Indian, Patrick Phillips, Phillip Levine, picture prompts, pink ink press, Po-Emotions, Poem a Day, poest collective, poet laureates, Poetic Asides, poetical misprints, poetry in public spaces, poetry prompt generator, poetry prompts, slate poetry podcasts, tweetspeakpoetry, voices of women in american poetry, Wild Violet, women poets, writeshop, Writing Knights Roundtable, Younger Than That Now

DAY SIX, y’all!  The best of the #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth prompts, poems and news coming at ya…………

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #6: “Homer’s The Sick Chicken”
Mslexia “Wrong Hand Translation Prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Things Not as They Appear Prompt”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Choose Your Own Adventure poems”
30dpc “Invisible Sentence prompt”
Wild Violet “E is for Epistle prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–Somonka”
The Language Inside’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Breasts (or other objects) poem”
Writing Knights Roundtable “Vestigial Word: Lemniscate (infinity symbol) poems”
Imaginary Garden w/ Real Toads’ “Seeing Stars Prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “I’m Late, I’m Late prompt”
Kris Bigalk’s “In Answer prompt”
Many Hats’ 25 Prompts page
lesfemmesfollesbooks’ Oldest Bra Persona Poem prompt
Writeshop’s Cinquain prompt
NaPoWriMo’s “Aubade prompt”
Tweetspeak’s “Native Air”
Language is a Virus’ “Writing Prompt Generator”
National Museum of the American Indian “Moonlight Fire” picture prompt

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Joyce Peseroff| “Bluebird”
Patrick Phillips| “Elegy for a Broken Machine”
Ernest Thayer (read by James Earl Jones)| “Casey at the Bat” (video)
Naomi Shihab Nye| “How Do I Know When a Poem is Finsihed?” (video)
Derek Walcott| “from Omeros (Book III: Achille in Africa)”
Clayton Valli| “Dandelions” (ASL video poem)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni| “Cutting the Sun”
Natasha Tretheway| “Elegy for my Father”

Miscellaneous

Slate Poetry Podcasts archive
Poets’ Collective Index to Poetry Forms
Ambassadors for Poetry: Interviews with Three Texas Poet Laureates
Poems for Hunter’s and Anglers
Laotian poet Bryan Thao Worra’s The Tuk-tuk Diaries: Preludes &Postcards (full book on ISSUU)
Guerrero Celebrates First Year as San Antonio’s Poet Laureate
Poet Philip Levine and Degas Give Us An Art Lesson
Poetry in Public Spaces (dverse)
The Voices of Women in American Poetry (video)
The Surprising History of Poetical Misprints