#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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2sDays Poems: Wolfies Under the Supermoon

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2sDay Poems, Alaskan Native writers, Gooch, La Lupe, Latino poet, Maraca: New & Selected Poems, Mary TallMountain, The Last Wolf, The Light on the Tent Wall, Tlingit art, Victor Hernandez Cruz, wolf poems

The Tlingit word for ‘wolf’ is gooch, and with the recent supermoon plastering the weekend skies, I thought it would be fun to share two of my favorite wolf poems, both from kick-a$$ poets (like top of the top ten of the poetry gods, no lie).

The first is from fellow Alaskan Native Mary TallMountain.

THE LAST WOLF

The last wolf hurried toward me
through the ruined city
and I heard his baying echoes
down the steep smashed warrens
of Montgomery Street and past
the ruby-crowned highrises
left standing
their lighted elevators useless

Passing the flicking red and green
of traffic signals
baying his way eastward
in the mystery of his wild…

FULL TEXT HERE

from The Light on the Tent Wall

 

The second is from Latino poet Victor Hernández Cruz.

LA LUPE

Her voice comes out of her knees,

her fingernails are full of sound,

Birds are in her lungs,

which gives her gargantuan flight,

A florescence through ether waves,

like ancestral Morse codes.

 

Oriente province de Cuba

her first steps.

At nineteen she dismantled retinas—

roosters blew themselves inside out,

When she swayed by cathedrals they folded,

guayacan trees fell to their knees,

Mountains bowed with the contents

for ajiaco.

She filled the horizon with kerchiefs,

gypsies danced behind her,

Her bracelets were snakes,

forces were captured in her…

FULL TEXT HERE

from Maraca: New & Selected Poems

 

And for those Native American art lovers, enjoy oodles of Tlingit (and other tribal) art over at AlaskaNativeArtists.com, including this supercool carved gooch helmet: