Category: Poetry

• NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 26: Self-portrait of a foreign country on the other side of the border

  

  Our (optional) prompt for day asks you to write a portrait poem that focuses on or plays with the meaning of the subject’s name. This could be a self-portrait, a portrait of a family member or close friend, or even a portrait of a famous or historical person. If you need help delving into the…

  Smitha V

  April 26, 2023

  Experiences, Poetry

  #bangladesh, #Day26, #dhaka, #foreigncountry, #GloPoWriMo2023, #life, #NaPoWriMo2023, #poetry, #selfportraitpoem, #truth

• NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 25 – Your presence makes me bloom

  

  Last but not least, here’s our (optional) prompt for the day. Begin by reading e e cummings’ poem [somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond]. This is a pretty classic love poem, so well-known that it has spawned at least one silly meme. Today’s prompt challenges you to also write a love poem, one that names at…

  Smitha V

  April 25, 2023

  Poetry

  #day25, #GloPoWriMo2023, #life, #lovepoem, #NaPoWriMo2023, #plant, #poetry, #truth

• NaPoWriMo2023- Day 24- Review of my willpower

  

  I’m back home and strangely enough, I’m glad. I say, ‘strangely’ because that’s not how I was feeling when I boarded the flight. I guess, I am still getting accustomed to living in this country. I don’t know what i was dreading – the hot weather, the crowded, rustic airport, the mad traffic or this…

  Smitha V

  April 24, 2023

  Poetry

  #life, Poetry, #poem, #truth, #funpoem, #fitness, #humor, #Day24, #NaPoWriMo2023, #GloPoWriMo2023, #poeticreview, #willpower

• NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 22- I saw it

  

  Today’s featured resource is the Open House poetry radio program. On each program, hosts Cornelius Eady and Patricia Spears Jones interview poets about their new and recent work. You can listen online, or live every Friday on NYC’s WBAI. Today’s prompt (optional, as always, and taken from our archives) is a variation on a teaching exercise that the poet Anne Boyer uses with students…

  Smitha V

  April 22, 2023

  Poetry

  #bird, #Day23, #emilydickinson, #GloPoWriMo2023, #NaPoWriMo2023, #nature, #poem

• NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 21- Courage

  

  Our daily resource is the BBC’s archive of poetry-related writing, where you’ll find essays and articles aplenty, exploring different poets, poems, and poetic forms. Last but not least, here’s today’s (optional) prompt. Begin by reading Sarah Gambito’s poem “Grace.” Now, choose an abstract noun from the list below, and then use that as the title for…

  Smitha V

  April 21, 2023

  Poetry

  #brave, #candles, #courage, #Day21, #fear, #GloPoWriMo2023, #gut, #NaPoWriMo2023, #phoenix, #strength