Tag: #GloPoWriMo2018

• NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 20 – Let Every Girl Be

  

  The craft resource for the day is Alice Notley’s essay, The Poetics of Disobedience. In it, Notley advocates for a poet to “maintain a state of disobedience against…everything.” By this she means remaining open to all forms, all subjects, and not becoming beholden to “usual” methods for writing. Whenever we are sure that there is one…

  Smitha V

  April 20, 2018

  Poetry

  #boys, #females, #feminism, #freedomforgirls, #girlchild, #girls, #GloPoWriMo2018, #ladies, #life, #men, #NaPoWriMo2018, #parenting, #raisinggirls, #rebelpoem, #women, #women’srights, #womenempowerment, #womenpower, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 19- Thirty Years…A long time

  

  The prompt for the day takes it cue from poet Dan Brady’s suggestion that erasure/word banks can allow for compelling repetitive effects. Today we challenge you to write a paragraph that briefly recounts a story, describes the scene outside your window, or even gives directions from your house to the grocery store. Now try erasing…

  Smitha V

  April 19, 2018

  Poetry

  #erasurepoem, #family, #forgive, #GloPoWriMo2018, #grudges, #letgo, #life, #NaPoWriMo2018, #relationships, #siblings, #time, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 18- It’s April! It’s Spring!

  

  Today we have a new craft resource for you, in the form of this collection of images of poets’ first drafts of their poems, complete with their crossings-out/notes. I find these particularly interesting in how they show a poet’s own evaluation of their initial thoughts – what works, what doesn’t work, what is too discursive, what…

  Smitha V

  April 18, 2018

  Experiences, Poetry

  #Day182018, #GloPoWriMo2018, #life, #lovenature, #NaPoWriMo2018, #natureateacher, #Naturepoem, #saveearth, #seasons, #spring, #truth, #WilliamsWordsworth, Experiences, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 17 – A Family Anecdote

  

  Our prompt for the day (optional as always) follows Gowrishankar’s suggestion that we write a poem re-telling a family anecdote that has stuck with you over time. It could be the story of the time your Uncle Louis caught a home run ball, the time your Cousin May accidentally brought home a coyote and gave…

  Smitha V

  April 17, 2018

  Experiences, Poetry

  #anecdote, #blessings, #culture, #Day172018, #funnypoem, #GloPoWriMo2018, #India, #Indiancustoms, #NaPoWriMo2018, Experiences, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 16 – Games we played

  

  Today’s prompt is to write a poem that prominently features the idea of play. It could be a poem about a sport or game, a poem about people who play (or are playing a game), or even a poem in the form of the rules for a sport or game that you’ve just made up…

  Smitha V

  April 16, 2018

  Experiences, Poetry

  #childhoodgames, #GloPoWriMo2018, #India, #Indiantraditionalgame, #Lagori, #life, #memory, #NaPoWriMo2018, #play, #simplestreetgames, Experiences, Poetry