#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 27)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Ann E. Michael, Anti-Slavery Poems, Apparatus Magazine, Barbara Crooker, Bethany Schultz Hurst, Celina Villagracia, Chana Bloch, fairytale poems, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Maria Hummel, Marin Poetry Center, Miss Rumphius Effect, Mouthfeel Press, mslexia, Negative Capability Press, Nora Dauenhauer, Ocean Vuong, pink ink press, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, Rattle, Stories& Slams, Storyscape, Terrance Hayes, Tom C. Hunley, West Trestle Review, Wild Violet, Will Nixon, women poets, Younger Than That Now

The best prompts, poems and news from DAY TWENTY-SEVEN of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

Apparatus Magazine’s “Pop Culture Sestinas”
30dpc “Waiting with Form prompt”
Imaginary Garden with Read Toads “Recipe prompt”
Negative Capability Press’ “Body poems after Laura Riding”
West Trestle Review “Strangers photo prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Looking Back prompt”
Stories& Slams’ “Monday Quatrains”
Wild Violet’s “Uses of X prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Hay(na)ku prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “The Confessional Poem”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form: Concrete Poems”
Younger Than That Now’s “No Makeup prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Nora Dauenhauer| “Tlingit Concrete Poem (1984)”
Will Nixon| “National Poetry Month”
Bethany Schultz Hurst| “Birds, Disappearing”
Celina Villagarcia| “Cayendo Sobre el Piso”
Ocean Vuong| “Someday I’ll Love” (w/ audio)
Tom C. Hunley| “i can’t sleep so i’ll tell you a story”
Terrance Hayes| “Black Confederate Ghost Story”
Kate Bernadette Benedict| “Wonders of Biotech”
Barbara Crooker| “Sometimes, I am Startled Out of Myself,”
Ann E. Michael| “During Wartime”

Miscellaneous

Marin Poetry Center Presents Chana Bloch & Maria Hummel (video)
Poems of Anglo-African &National Anti-Slavery Standard
Top 10 Fairytale Poems at Tweetspeak

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 19)

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#NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 52 blog, A River& Sound, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, Boston Poetry Slam, craft talks, Deirdre Hines, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Food Poems, Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Julie Feng, Lavinia Greenlaw, lesfemmesfollesbooks, lunch poems, Mary Cornish, Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, mslexia, Negative Capability Press, Poem a Day, poet interviews, Poetic Asides, Poetry 180, Poetry Foundation, Poetry magazine, poetry prompts, Rachel Dacus, Saveur, Tony Hoagland, Wild Violet, women poets, Yehuda Amichai, Younger Than That Now

The best prompts, poems and news from DAY NINETEEN of #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth.

Best of the Prompts

Drunk in a Midnight Choir’s “Letter to an Extinct Species prompt”
NaPoWriMo’s “Landay prompt”
lesfemmesfollesbooks’ “What Breasts are Not & What They Could Be prompt”
Younger Than That Now’s “How to Fail prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Authority Poems “
Negative Capability Press’ “Tootsies prompt”
ARTSPEAK #19 “La Forge’s Fisherman Spearing a Fish”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Google Image prompt”
Imaginary Garden w/ Real Toads’ “The Other Half of the Lemon/Mae West prompt”
Mslexia’s “Memories of [location] and [name of person] prompt”
Wild Violet’s “Q is for Quinzaine”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Rachel Dacus| “The Life of Umbrellas”
Tony Hoagland| “The Word”
Lavinia Greenlaw| “Blue Field” (w audio)
Deirdre Hines| “The Problem with Coats” (video)
Mary Cornish| “Numbers”
Yehuda Amichai| Near the Wall of a House”
Julie Feng| “Heliotropism”

Miscellaneous

A Feast for Bards: 13 Favorite Food Poems at Saveur
Lunch Poems: Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

#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

 

 

 

#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 5)

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#napomo, #NaPoWriMo, #NationalPoetryMonth, #NPM15, 30dpc, Amorak Huey, anne bradstreet, Apparatus Magazine, artspeak, Corey Marks, Diy MFA, easter, hatbooks, Heid E. Erdrich, Jane Yeh, Jose Angel Araguz, Library of Congress, Miss Rumphius Effect, mslexia, Natioanl Museum of the American Indian, picture prompts, pink ink press, Po-Emotions, Poem a Day, Poetic Asides, poetry prompts, room mag, Sierra Golden, spotlight on us hispanic writers, titling poems, Traci Brimhall, Wild Violet, women poets, Writing Knights Roundtable, yeats, Younger Than That Now

#NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth DAY FIVE prompts, poems and news all in one place. Dig in!!!

Best of the Prompts

ARTSPEAK #5: “Callot’s Cat Watching Caged Bird”
Mslexia “Goblin Fruit prompt”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Vegetable Poems”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Echo poems”
30dpc “Routine Ramblings”
Wild Violet “D is for Dimeter (forms)”
Po-Emotions “Disgust”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s “Jumping Into Form–Triolets w/ Jane Yolen”
The Language Inside’s “Introduction poems in the vein of Billy Collins”
Writing Knights Roundtable “Vestigial Word: Flitterwochen”
Younger Than That Now’s “Random Number prompt”
Pink Ink Press’ “Culinary Delights”
RT Diy MFA Brief Guide to Prose Poems &Postcard Prompt
RT OctPoWriMo 2014 Poetry Revolution prompt
National Museum of the American Indian picture prompt

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Sierra Golden| “Tango”
Heid E. Erdrich| “Last Snow”
Traci Brimhall translated by Erika Meitner| “Refuge(e)
Jane Yeh| “The Robots” [Scroll down}
Jennifer Gresham| “Anatomy”
Corey Marks| “Dumb Luck”
Amorak Huey| “This is Not a Love Poem for April From Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”
Jose Angel Araguz| “Superhero”

Miscellaneous

Spotlight on US Hispanic Writers
After the Light bulb Moment: Titling Your Poem
How Yeats Turned ‘Easter 1916’ Into a Political Anthem
ROOM mag’s NPM (Can Women)Reading List