#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

**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 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

AY COLORES!! Juicy, Juicy Color Bytes for Poets and Painters

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Aimee Bender, Audre Lord, Belle Journal, color, contemporary artists, Diane Lockwood, Marge Piercy, margo roby, Pablo Neruda, poetry prompt, Ruth Stone, Sylvia Plath, W.S. Merwin, William Sitting Bull

So, I’m a big fan of Margo Roby’s Wordgathering blog and her Poem Tryout for today was all about color. And since I’ve been thinking a lot about this topic myself:

1) because I’m highly anticipating Aimee Bender’s new collection of short stories, The Color Master and 2) because I just put together a collection of my own art for Belle Journal [will link to the gallery when it’s up],

I have decided to give you a selection of poems and paintings to complement Margo’s post.

First a sampling of some contemporary art:

Profile on Red by Delia Parvu

Fire Horses by Maria Spencer

Image #29 by William Sitting Bull

Large White Flowers in Vase by Susanna Shap

Image #32 by William Sitting Bull

Flirting with a violin by Anna Razumovskaya

And now the poems:

Ode to Wine by Pablo Neruda

Colors Passing Through Us by Marge Piercy

The Summer He Left by Diane Lockward  [You have to scroll]

Tulips by Sylvia Plath

White on White by Ruth Stone   [Ignore the nasty comment. Someone please send me a better link if you can find it.]

Separation by W.S. Merwin

Coal by Audre Lord

And that should be enough to get you going for now.  I’m sure I’ve left some really good poems out. If you have one, please post in the comments.

C.A.