Tag: #GloPoWriMo2018
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NaPoWriMo 2018- Day 30- Weird were the Medieval Times
Our last craft resource for you is this online collection of recordings of Borges’ lectures on poetry and many other topics. Borges was, in addition to being a poet and writer of strange and compelling short stories, an inveterate professor who lectured widely in both Spanish and English. His lectures are seeded throughout with strange factoids,…
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NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 29 – A Response Poem- Sleeping Child to Nick and the Candlestick
Today we have new interview (and our last for this year!), with the poet Chris Tonelli’s, whose second full-length poetry collection, Whatever Stasis, is just out from Barrelhouse Books. You can read some of Tonelli’s poetry here and here, and our interview with him here. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem…
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NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 28- A Postcard Poem: Wish you were here…
Today, we bring you a new craft resource, in the form of this history and exploration of the prose poem. This essay helpfully catalogs several different styles of prose poem, with examples, and possible strategies for writing. And now for our prompt (optional, as always). Following the suggestion of our craft resource, we challenge you today…
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NaPoWriMo 2018 : Day 27 – A Tarot Poem- Five of Wands…Two of Cups
Today we have a new interview for you, with Lauren Hunter, whose first book of poetry, HUMAN ACHIEVEMENTS, was published last year by Birds LLC. You can read some of Hunter’s poetry here and here, and you can check out our interview with her here. Today’s prompt follows Lauren Hunter’s practice of relying on tarot cards to generate ideas for poems,…
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NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 26 – A Poem that touches all senses -WhEn Will this MaDnESs EnD?
Today we bring you a new craft resource, in the form of this essay by Josh Roark exploring engagement of the senses, and of the notion of embodiment, in the poetry of Ocean Vuong. Roark argues that the key to the success of Vuong’s poems is his particular ability to make the reader feel a poem as a visceral object,…