Tag: #poet
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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…
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NaPoWriMo Day 21: Today, I’ll tell myself
And now for our (optional) prompt. Have you ever heard or read the nursery rhyme, “There was a man of double deed?” It’s quite creepy! A lot of its effectiveness can be traced back to how, after the first couplet, the lines all begin with the same two phrases (either “When the . . .”…
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NaPoWriMo Day 0 – A woman ironing
Happy April! NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) is here. I’ll be writing 30 poems in 30 days or at-least I hope to write 30 poems as per the prompts provided in the link below https://www.napowrimo.net/almost-there-and-an-early-bird-prompt/ If any of you wish to participate, all you need to do is write a poem and paste the link…
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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…