Tag: #poetry

• 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 8 – My dreams are birds of gold

  

  Today’s resource is “Public Access Poetry,” an online feature from the Poetry Project, presenting digitized audio files of a poetry-themed public-access TV show that aired in New York City in 1977 and 1978. Listen to stalwarts and shining lights of the late-70s NYC “scene” such as Bernadette Mayer, Ron Padgett, Eileen Myles, and more! And…

  Smitha V

  April 8, 2023

  Poetry

  #birds, #day8, #dream, #egypt, #future, #GloPoWriMo2023, #NaPoWriMo2023, #poetry, #Queen, #rulespoem, #twentyrules

• NaPoWriMo Day2023- Day 5: Grandma’s funeral

  

  Today, our featured resource is Verse Daily, where you will find – you guessed it – a new poem every day. You can also check out more than twenty years of archived poems – a rich collection indeed. Finally, here’s our (optional) prompt for the day. Begin by reading Charles Simic’s poem “The Melon.” It would…

  Smitha V

  April 5, 2023

  Poetry

  #life, #poem, #day5, #poetry, #funnypoem, #juxtaposition, #NaPoWriMo2023, #funeral, #shockingpoem

• NaPoWriMo Day 3: Hero

  I’m a little late this year as I’ve been travelling and returned home only last evening. I’ve been busy editing and getting my debut novel out into the world that it feels like a long time since I wrote a poem. It had me a little scared of participating in NaPoWriMo this year. However, here…

  Smitha V

  April 3, 2023

  Poetry

  #day3, #funpoem, #hero, #NaPoWriMo2023, #oppositepoem, #poetry, #sissy

• Book Review: Lion Scream by Robbie Cheadle

  

  A must read for all The book cover of a lion baring its teeth and the title of the book is powerful – ‘the scream’ Robbie explains it was inspired by Edward Munch’s famous painting by the same name. She says she used it in the title because it was how she felt on seeing…

  Smitha V

  March 8, 2023

  Book Review, Poetry

  #animals, #bookreview, #children, #climatechange, #fauna, #flora, #learning, #lionscream, #newbook, #poetry, #RobbieCheadle, #SouthAfrica