Tag: #GloPoWriMo2023
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 20 – What are these toys?
Today’s poetry resource is a little discussion about poetry in bookstores. There are plenty of bookstores around with good poetry sections (two of my favorites are Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC and Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, Maine). But did you know that there are also a handful of bookstores that only sell poetry? Check out Boston’s Grolier…