Tag: #NaPoWriMo2019
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NaPoWriMo: Day 26 – I didn’t know
Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a word, or phrase. You can even repeat an image, perhaps slightly changing or enlarging it from stanza to stanza, to alter its meaning. There are (perhaps paradoxically) infinite possibilities in repetition. Want to look at some examples? Perhaps […]
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NaPoWriMo: Day 25 – Summer; where I come from
Today’s featured video resource is this short film featuring a reading of Keats’ “To Autumn,” And now for today’s prompt . Taking a cue from our video resource for the day, and from Keat’s poem, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that: Is specific to a season Uses imagery that relates to all five […]
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NaPoWriMo: Day 24 – Its page 648 and 649
Today’s (optional) prompt is to write a poem that, like “Dictionary Illustrations,” is inspired by a reference book. Locate a dictionary, thesaurus, or encyclopedia, open it at random, and consider the two pages in front of you to be your inspirational playground for the day. Maybe a strange word will catch your eye, or perhaps […]
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NaPoWriMo :Day 24 – The Flight of the Kite
And now for our daily prompt (optional, as always)! Taking a cue from Bishop, I’d like to challenge you today to write a poem about an animal. If you’d like to take a look at some other poems for inspiration, you might like James Dickey’s “The Dusk of Horses,” or Tennyson’s “The Eagle.” Well, since […]
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NaPoWriMo : Day 22 – An ode to baking
And now for our daily (optional) prompt. As our film for the day shows, art and poetry can richly affect one another. Frank O’Hara’s poem, “Why I am Not a Painter,” speaks to this mutual engagement, as do explicitly ekphrastic poems (i.e., poems that are about a specific work of art), like Thom Gunn’s “In […]