#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

 

 

 

Pop Out a Poem!!

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poetry, poetry lab, storybuilders, writer's block, writeshop, writing prompt

Ok, so maybe a poem’s not just going to pop out like PEZ, but you sure as heck can do a lot to help it along.

One of my favorite techniques is actually something that I picked up from teenagers who stole it from the little kiddles, so you can bet that it’s fun.

It’s a product called Storybuilders and it happens to come from a company that caters to educators who are trying to give reluctant writers a spark.

Basically, it’s a set of ebooks that when printed out form a deck of cards with categories like: Character, Character Traits, Setting, and Plot.

Now, I know that this sounds like something for pulling fiction from grade schoolers, but trust me, it works just fine for poetry and for adults.

Some of the entries may seem simple (ex: a fishing boat as setting and an elf as a character), but it’s when you mix up the decks that your rockets will really start firing.

And the best part is that once you get started, you can add your own cards for a personalized deck! I like to paste in pictures straight out of magazines, as well as add words.

A few things that I added this week are: cyborgs, Chibis, and sharks. And I actually ended up with something really fabulous when I threw that last one into the deck.  [Hope to hear back from a lit mag on that one soon.]

So here’s wishing you equal success in all of your own experiments. And please feel free to post if you have something that you want to share. 🙂