Tag: #poetry
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NaPoWriMo 2024 : Day 26- Wickedness of War
Our daily resource is the video archive of the Silo City Reading Series, hosted by the Just Buffalo Literary Center in Buffalo, New York.And now for our (optional) prompt. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that involves alliteration, consonance, and assonance. Alliteration is the repetition of a particular consonant sound at…
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 25- When do I lie?
Our featured resource for the day is the website of the Poetry Society of America’s Poetry in Motion project, which places posters with poems on them into the transit systems of major American cities. Last but not least, here’s our optional prompt for the day. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem based on…
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NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 24- To those who hate me
Today’s featured resource is this BBC archive dedicated to the poetry of Robert Burns. You can read about his life, read his poems, and hear them read by dozens of folks, including former-prince-now-king Charles. Finally, our (optional) prompt for the day is another one pulled from our 2016 archives. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a…
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NaPoWriMo 2024 : Day 22- The battle between baroque pearl drop earrings and the leather Tote bag
Today’s featured resource is litbowl, an Instagram account and Facebook page that posts poems and prose with the goal of helping readers find new poets and authors. The account has Last but not least, here’s today’s optional prompt. This one comes from the poet and fiction writer Todd Dillard, who provided this idea on his twitter account a few months ago.…
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Book Review 07/50: Square Peg in a Round Hole by Robbie Cheadle
‘Square Peg in A Round Hole’ is a book of 157 pages of syllabic poetry, micro poems, 100-word stories and artwork done by the author, Robbie Cheadle, and her son, Michael. I read this book during the short waiting time at the airport and on the two hour flight back home. About the book A…