#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 20)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, Ben Brindise, Carolyn Hembree, Claire Trevien, Eavan Boland, Eileen Myles, Erin Lyons, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jo Bell, Katrina Naomi, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Mariah Wilson, Mark Yakich, Mary Caroll-Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Penned in the Margins, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, The Paris Review, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Kenning Challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “What Terrifies You prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “What Goes Unsaid prompt”
Poetry School’s “Destruction& Reconstruction prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “An Ending prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “When the Tea Kettle Sings prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Decimator prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “News stories prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Good Wishes Gone Bad prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Airport muses prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Spring Green prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “The Moment Before prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Urban Legend prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Eavan Boland “The Lost Art of Letter Writing” (video)
Lorna Dee Cervantes “Valentine”
Claire Trevien “Rollright Stones” (audio w/ commentary)
Katrina Naomi “The Way the Crocodile Taught Me” (audio)
Ben Brindise “A Poem to Your Shadow”
Erin Lyons “Like a Girl”

Miscellaneous

Interview w/ Poet Eileen Myles (The Paris Review archives)
The Reading Life podcast w/ La. Poets Mark Yakich & Carolyn Hembree( starts 9:37)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 18)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, Barbara Crooker, Brenda Hillman, Brenda Shaughnessy, C.D. Wright, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jo Bell, Latino poetry, Lithub, Madhuri Blaylock, Mariah Wilson, Mary Caroll-Hackett, Meredith Bergmann, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Sonja Livingstone, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Sound of Home prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Ode to Thing(s) You Can’t Live Without prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Memories of Childhood Toy prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Office poem prompt”
Poetry School’s “Contradictions & Paradoxes prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Poem to Person You Miss prompts”
QuillsEdge Press’ “You as a Fireplace prompt”
Found Poetry’s “3 Word-gathering Assist prompts”
Apparatus Mag’s “Pop Culture Sestina challenge”
Imaginary Garden’s “New Perspective (Surprise) prompt”
30dpc “Strange Objects prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Shame prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Letter to a Planet”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Brenda Hillman “Some Kinds of Forever Visit You”
Meredith Bergmann “Nursery Rhyme”
Madhuri Blaylock “Ghosts of Childhood”
Barbara Crooker “Women”
Brenda Shaughnessy “I Have a Time Machine”

Miscellaneous

Feature on Poet Sonja Livingstone (Mary Carroll-Hackett)
5 New Latino Poetry Books for NPM (NBC News)
Remembering the Great C.D. Wright (LitHub)

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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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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 15)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, Eleanor Swanson, Fay Dillof, Found Poetry Review, gary snyder, Gregory Pardlo, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jill Khoury, Jo Bell, Jordan Walsh, Kate Asche, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Ofelia Zepeda, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, QuillsEdge Press, sijo, Sundress Publications, The City Quill, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Doubles prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Revisiting Peake’s prompt generator”
Indiana Humanities’ “Portrait Poem challenge”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “4 to 8 prompt”
Poetry School’s “Night Setting prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Tumblr User Names prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “My mother’s hands, eyes prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Appreciating Hated Text challenge”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Maker of Your Own Song prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Image Search prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Wasteland Fibonacci free verse challenge”
30dpc “Twitter-sized prompt”
The City Quill’s “Page 15 verb prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Favorite places prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Toys prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Locked Doors prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Fay Dillof “Black Ants”
Jordan Walsh “How an Inuit Jigs”
Kate Asche “Lullaby”
Eleanor Swanson “I Love You, Says the Heart”
Ofelia Zepeda “Riding the Earth”

Miscellaneous

Interview with Poet Gary Snyder (The Writer’s Almanac)
The Elements of a Sijo (Writing& Ruminating)
Poetry Lessons with Gregory Pardlo (Brian Lehrer Show)
Interview with Jill Khoury (Sundress Publications)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 14)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Alice Walker, Apparatus Magazine, Czeslaw Milosz, David Ignataw, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jane Kenyon, Jen Fitzgerald, Jo Bell, Juan Felips Herrera, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Leslea Newman, Lyn Hejinian, Mariah Wilson, Marianne Moore, Mary Carroll Hackett, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poet Envy Chain, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Public Books, QuillsEdge Press, Tania Runyan, The City Quill, The Rumpus, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “san san Challenge”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Tree Names prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Memories of a Board Game prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Time-out prompt”
Poetry School’s “Banned Activities prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Caught in a Storm prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “If These Windows Could Talk prompt”
Found Poetry’s “First Hand Experience prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Wandering prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Let’s Write About Sex prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Substitution prompt”
30dpc “Artifact prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Difficult to Love prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Laudation challenge”
Winter Tangerine’s “Words from Another Poem prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Lesléa Newman “Looking at Her”
Lyn Hejinian “A name trimmed with colored ribbons”
Jane Kenyon “Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks”
David Ignataw “The Bagel”
Czeslaw Milosz “Dedication”
Tania Runyan “The Bee Box”
Alice Walker “If There Was Any Justice” (video)

Miscellaneous

Voices& Visions: Marianne Moore Documentary
Juan Felipe Herrera Named to Second Term as Poet Laureate (NY Times)
Jen Fitzgeralds’s Poetry Mixtape#2: Poets on Poetry& Art (The Rumpus)
A Poetry Envy Chain (Public Books)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 13)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, Carole Stone, Elizabeth Acevedo, Elizabeth Koch, Found Poetry Review, Graywolf Press, Gretchen Marquette, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Irish women poets, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Leah Umansky, Lorna Shaugnessy, Mariah Wilson, Mark Strand, Mary Carroll Hackett, N. Scott Momaday, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poethead, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Tess Taylor, The City Quill, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Fortune Cookie prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “List Poem in the Style of Camile Guthrie prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Family Holiday prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Last ___ prompt”
Poetry School’s “Animal Habitats prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Lament prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Aubade to Yourself prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Phrases from Travel Websites prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Miracle of Birth prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Confronting Fears prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Reconciliation prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “If These Walls Could Talk prompt”
The City Quill’s “What Makes You Anxious prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Going Back in Time prompt”
Elizabeth Koch’s “Instincts prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Bad Birthdays prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Mark Strand “Eating Poetry”
Gretchen Marquette “Doe”
Carole Stone “A Woman’s Face”
Leah Umansky “This is a Real Elegy”
Lorna Shaugnessy “Moving Like Anemones”
N. Scott Momaday “The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee”

Miscellaneous

Art Talk with Poet and 2016 Poetry Out Loud Host Elizabeth Acevedo (NEA)
Poems that Celebrate Life on the Farm: Tess Taylor’s Work&Days (NPR)
7 Playful Tactics to Get Kids Writing Poetry (Edutopia)
Four Voices Confront the Absence of Women in Irish Poetry

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 12)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Airea D. Matthews, Ann E. Michael, Apparatus Magazine, Aracelis Girmay, Charlotte Matthews, Claire Trevien, Found Poetry Review, Indiana Humanities, Kate Foley, Kiki Nicole, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Michael Ruby, Naomi Shihab Nye, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetic forms, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Robert Frost, Split This Rock, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Index poems prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Limerick Challenge”
Indiana Humanities’ “Childhood Place prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Serious take/Silliness prompt”
Poetry School’s “Superpower prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Escape prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Totem animal prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Borrowed Language prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Art of Celebration/Survival prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Exploring Options prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Favorite Spot prompt”
30dpc’s “Watcha reading prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “Write Your Creation Myth challenge”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Naomi Shihab Nye “Making a Fist”
Charlotte Matthews “Night Paver’s Song”
Millicent Borges Accardi “Portrait of a Girl, 1942”
Michael Ruby “Only on Tuesday”
Airea D. Matthews “Swindle”
Ann E. Michael “No White Horses”
Kiki Nicole “The Blacker the Berry”

Miscellaneous

Split This Rock Interview with Aracelis Girmay
Frost’s Granddaughter Discusses New Book About Him (podcast)
13 Ways of Looking at the Poem (Poetic Forms)
On Claire Trévien’s Astéronymes (Oxford Mail)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 11)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 30dpc, Apparatus Magazine, Bruno Rios, Found Poetry Review, Harry Baker, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Kate Foley, Kim Addonizio, Lagan Press, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Maureen Doallas, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Poem a Day, Poet Laureate, Poetic Asides, poetry comics, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Safia Elhillo, Sherman Alexie, Tanka Feminism, The City Quill, The Rumpus, Wallace Stevens, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Close Description w/ Surprise Turn prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Ode to an Animal prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Soviet Kitsch (movie posters) prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Defensive poem prompt”
Poetry School’s “Found Gun prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Random Article Blackout prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “State of Justice prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Astrological Self-Portrait prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Being Water prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Constrained Writing prompt”
The City Quill’s “Favorite Greek God prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Favorite Adjectives & Nouns prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Sci-fi Elements prompt”
30dpc’s “Case of the Mondays prompt”
Winter Tangerine’s “From the Mirror’s Perspective prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Harry Baker “A Love Poem for Lonely Prime Numbers”
Safia Elhillo “Self-Portriat with Yellow Dress”
Wallace Stevens “The Emperor of Ice Cream”
Kimiko Hahn “Not Nothing”
Sherman Alexie “The Powwow at the End of the World”
Joan Naviyuk Kane “Asymmetry”
Kim Addonizio “Here”

Miscellaneous

A Poetry Comics Discussion (The Rumpus)
A Little Tanka Feminism (Kelly Fineman)
Monday Muse Profile on CT’s Poet Laureate (Maureen Doallas)
Sound Portrait of Bruno Rios (Houston Public Media)

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 9)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Adele Kenny, Alice Major, Apparatus Magazine, Caryl Pagel, Dear Poet: Write Me, Deep South Magazine, Flower Conroy, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Kate Foley, Linda Parsons Marion, Mariah Wilson, mslexia, Naomi Shihab Nye, native american poetry, Nikky Finney, NPM16, Numero Cinq, Patrick Phillips, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Rangi McNeil, Ruth Lepson, Scholastic, Sophya Giudici-Juarez, Tanaya Wilder, Ted Kooser, Visual poetry, Winter Tangerine, women poets

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Lines You’re Afraid to Write prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Magazine Images prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Nature’s Wonders prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Hide-out poems prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Happiness prompt”
Poetry School’s “Universe prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Last Time/TV Character Acrostics prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “When I Step Into the ___ prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Erasure poems prompt”
Dear Poet: Write Me’s “Geometric Shape of Goodness prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hacket’s “Where the World Ends, Or Begins prompt”
Mslexia’s “Sestina Challenge”
Winter Tangerine’s “Bad News in a Cheap Motel prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Childhood Memories prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Echo prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Alice Major “Euclid’s Iron Hand”
Linda Parsons Marion “Home Fire”
Rangi McNeil “The Heart is a Foreign Country”
Ted Kooser “Mother”
Flower Conroy “Flushed Brush Strokes Where I Left Imaginary Caresses”
Tanaya Wilder “Back to the Beginning” (video)
Naomi Shihab Nye “300 Goats”
Sophya Giudici-Juarez”Rinforzando”
Caryl Pagel “Red Sky”
Patrick Phillips “Barbershop”
Ruth Lepson “Fielding Dawson Portrait of Cy Twombly”

Miscellaneous

The Beauty & Difficulty of Nikky Finney (NPR)
Scholastic’s Poetry Picks for Beginning Readers
John Bennet Defines Visual Poetry in the Avant Garde (Ohio Poets Assoc)
Native American Poetry Chapbook list

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#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 8)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, 100 Scope Notes, 30dpc, Adele Kenny, Apparatus Magazine, Connie Voisine, Dear Poet: Write Me, Elizabeth Koch, Eve L. Ewing, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Instagram poetry, Jen Karetnick, Joy Harjo, Kate Foley, Lagan Press, Leticia Hernandez Linares, Lucille Clifton, Mariah Wilson, May Sarton, NPM16, Patricia Smith, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Poetry School, poets' day jobs, QuillsEdge Press, The City Quill, Valerie Nies, Winter Tangerine, women poets, Words on a Wire

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Flower prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Word Salad prompts”
Imaginary Garden’s “Women’s Freedom prompt”
Elizabeth Koch’s “Everyday Item You Can’t Live Without prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Doodle poems prompt”
Adele Kenny’s “Being Alone prompt”
30dpc’s “20min walk prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Tap Into Your Dreams prompt”
Poetry School’s “Afterlife prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Rewritten Endings prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “Yearning lays its hands prompt”
Kate Foley’s “All About Family prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Something You Can’t Remember prompt”
The City Quill’s “Plant Perspective prompt”
Dear Poet: Write Me’s “Your Opposite prompt”
100 Scope Notes’ “Book Spine Centos prompt”
Winter Tangerine “Write What the Walls Whisper prompt”
Lagan Press’ “Morning Reflections prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Valerie Nies “How to Throw Like a Girl”
May Sarton “Metamorphosis”
Lucille Clifton “What the Mirror Said” (read by Bill Murray)
Joy Harjo “A Poem to Get Rid of Fear” (video)
Joy Harjo “A Map to the Next World”
Jen Karetnick “A Note to GK Chesterton”
Eve L. Ewing “to the notebook kid”
Patricia Smith “Hip-Hop Ghazal”

Miscellaneous

12 Famous Poets and Their Day Jobs (Mashable)
8 Writers Who Are Taking Poetry Beyond the Page
Words on a Wire broadcast with poet Leticia Hernández-Linares
Words on a Wire broadcast with poet Connie Voisine

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