Tag: #NaPoWriMo2018
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NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 25- Warning! Wake Up Girl! Before it’s too late.
We bring you a new interview today, with Rodney Gomez, whose book Citizens of the Mausoleum, is being put out by Sundress Publications. Gomez is the author of several chapbooks, and his poems have previously been published in journals including Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Blackbird, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, and Puerto del Sol, You can read some of Gomez’s poems here and here, and our interview with…
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NaPoWriMo 2018 : Day 24 – I Will Always Remember You
Today’s craft resource is a long-ish essay by Hyejung Kook regarding how poetry can be created from absence, or in the wake of loss, and how awareness of mortality drives a desire to produce art, people, poems. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write an elegy – a poem typically written in honor or…
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NaPoWriMO 2018: Day23 A Sound Poem- Laughter
Today’s prompt is to write a sound poem! Kate Greenstreet’s poetry is spare, but gives a very palpable sense of being spoken aloud – it reads like spoken language sounds. In our interview with her, she underscores this, stating that “when you hear it, you write it down.” Today, we challenge you to honor this…
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NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 22 – Just because you don’t believe in it , Doesn’t mean it can’t happen… Nothing’s Impossible
Our craft resource for the day is a series of reflections by Wesley McNair on “indirect entry” into a poem. McNair writes of inviting mystery and uncertainty into our poems, both with respect to the writing process and the finished work. And now for our daily prompt (optional as always). I’ve found this one rather useful in…
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NaPoWriMo 2018: Day 21 – Narcissism the New Religion and All Are Followers
Today, we have a new interview for you, with Antoinette Brim, whose newest book of poetry, These Women You Gave Me, has been published by Indolent Books. Brim is a Cave Canem Foundation fellow, a recipient of the Walker Foundation Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. You can…