#NationalPoetryMonth’16 Round-up (Day 25)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, Apparatus Magazine, CavanKerry, Fishouse, Found Poetry Review, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Indiana Humanities, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Jo Bell, Joyce Sutphen, Kate Foley, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Lynn Pattison, Mariah Wilson, Mary Carroll Hackett, Native American Poets, NotaLiteraryJournal, NPM16, Orlando White, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry podcasts, poetry prompts, Poetry School, QuillsEdge Press, Tinderbox Poetry, Tweetspeak Poetry, women poets, Words on a Wire

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

Best of the Prompts

NaPoWriMo’s “Lines from Another Poem prompt”
NotaLiteraryJournal’s “Ode to Practicing prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Exercise poems prompt”
Poetry School’s “Definitions Prompt”
Mariah Wilson’s “Getting Up Early prompt”
QuillsEdge Press’ “This is What I Build prompt”
Found Poetry’s “Homophonic-Interpretation prompt”
Apparatus Mag’s “Conversation w/ Mark-Makers prompt”
Jo Bell’s “Argument poem prompt”
Indiana Humanities’ “Advertisement poems prompt”
Mary Carroll-Hackett’s “Walking prompt”
Kate Foley’s “Missed Connections prompt”
Imaginary Garden’s “Where You Come From prompt”
Tweetspeak Poetry’s “Celebrity Pillows prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Jeanne Marie Beaumont “Letter from Limbo”
Laurie Ann Guerrero “Brownies of the Southwest: Troop 704”
Joyce Sutphen “A Bird in County Clare”
Orlando White “The i is a Cricket”
Lynn Pattison “Cleaning the birdhouse”

Miscellaneous

Your Favorite Poems About Food& Farming (NPR)
Words on a Wire podcast w/ Ada Limón

**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’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

**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.

#ReadWomen 3×3: Poetry Collections to Grab

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Ahsahta Press, Anglo-Saxon, Claudia Emerson, collage cut-up poems, Dancing Girl Press, Garden Effigies, Hedy Habra, Helen Ivory, Ilyse Kunetz, Knives Forks and Spoons Press, LSU Press, Maria Miranda Maloney, Pandora Lobo Estepario, Small Hours, Sweeter Water, The Lost Letters of Mileva, The Opposite House, Under Brush Strokes, Words on a Wire

GET ‘EM NOW:

From Maria Miranda Maloney:

The Lost Letters of Mileva ( Pandora Lobo Estepario, 2014)

prose poems in the voice of Albert Einstein’s first wife

==>Great interview about the collection on WORDS ON A WIRE podcast

 

 

 

From Ilyse Kusnetz:

Small Hours (Truman State, 2014)

a T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize winner, interweaving history and science into a tapestry of her own blood

==> Sample Poems here

 

 

From Pulitzer winner, Claudia Emerson:

The Opposite House (LSU Press, 2014)

the first of several posthumous collections from LSU Press, based around a line from Dickinson and full of mossy elegies and Virginia creeps

==>Title poem at Blackbird

 

 

RELEASING SOON:

No publication date yet, but some engrossing”teasers” for Helen Ivory‘s collection of collage/cut-up poems at Knives Forks and Spoons Press.  Find the goods at  AND OTHER POEMS and Helen’s Blog.

Coming this summer: Sara Henning’s Garden Effigies at dancing girl press. So far only this tweet to go on, but given the feast that was Sweeter Water and the quality of DGP pubs, it should be great.

Another release from a favorite press:

Hedy Habra’s Under Brush Strokes (Press 53) which is all about ART. yes! Already in love with the cover.

 

Got your own finds (including your own publications)? Share in the comments.