Tag: #poem

• NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 12- Dear Poetry, Please Stay

  

  Today’s featured resource is another podcast: A Mouthful of Air. In each episode of this relatively new series, a contemporary poet (generally from the U.K.) discusses one of their poems or, alternatively, host Mark McGuinness discusses a classic poem, like Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “The Windhover.” And now for another (optional) prompt from our archives. Today, I…

  Smitha V

  April 12, 2023

  Poetry

  #arspoetica, #catharsis, #God'sgift, #letter poem, #loveforwords, #pain, #poem, #poet, #poetry, #therapeutic

• NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 11- Shocked

  

  Today, our daily resource is Chill Subs. Since it was first created couple of years back as an easy way to find journals and magazines accepting submissions of poetry and other writing, the site has grown to include software for tracking your submissions, a blog with fun posts about writing, and much more. It’s free to…

  Smitha V

  April 11, 2023

  Experiences, Poetry

  #conversation, #day11, #death, #english, #GloPoWriMo2023, #life, #NaPoWriMo2023, #poem, #shock, Poetry

• NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 10 – There’s laundry to be done- a sea shanty

  

  Today’s daily prompt (optional, as always) again comes from our archives. I’m playing to my own strengths here, but I challenge you to write a sea shanty (or shantey, or chanty, or chantey — there’s a good deal of disagreement regarding the spelling!) Anyway, these are poems in the forms of songs, strongly rhymed and rhythmic, that…

  Smitha V

  April 10, 2023

  Poetry

  #Day10, #GloPoWriMo2023, #NaPoWriMo2023, #poem, #promptpoem, #sailor, #seashanty, #ship

• NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 7: Lists and I

  

  Last, but not least, here’s our daily prompt (optional, as always). Start by reading James Tate’s poem “The List of Famous Hats.”  Now, write a poem that plays with the idea of a list. Tate’s poem is a list that isn’t – he never gets beyond the first entry. You could try to write such…

  Smitha V

  April 7, 2023

  Poetry

  #Day7, #GloPoWriMo2023, #life, #listoholic, #listomaniac, #listpoem, #lovelists, #NaPoWriMo2023, #poem, #real, #truth

• NaPoWriM0 2023: Day 6 – I write the life I like

  

  Our daily resource is Poetry International, a wonderful source of contemporary poems in many different languages. Besides hosting so many poems online, Poetry International also puts on an annual poetry festival. This year’s will take place in Rotterdam in June. Today’s (optional) prompt is again drawn from our archives, and builds off our daily resource. Take…

  Smitha V

  April 6, 2023

  Experiences, Poetry

  #Day6, #funnypoem, #GloPoWriMo2023, #inspiration, #Italian, #life, #massimomorasso, #NaPoWriMo2023, #poem, #senselesspoem, #translation, Poetry