Resources for NaPoWriMo 2012

The official poster for National Poetry Month 2012 (Academy of American Poets)

If you’re trying to write a poem a day this April, here is a list of people providing writing prompts for the occasion:
• The official NaPoWriMo Headquarters (Maureen Thorson)
• The Best American Poetry blog 
• Robert Lee Brewer lists a daily prompts at Poetic Asides
• More than 30 ideas can be found at Redactions Poetry and Poetics
• Kelli Russell Agadon has a great list from a year ago or so
• The 30/30 Prompt Blog gives out recipes for poetry
• Art Amok Slam has some lively ideas to share
• And the Poetry Society of New York offers up both prompts and prizes!

If you’ve found a great source of writing prompts on the web, please share the link as a comment, and I will add it to the list.

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A Little Push

Here’s a list of blogs that are offering up poetry prompts for NaPoWriMo 2011. It’s short so please share with me links to other poetry prompts for the cruelest month.

Big Tent Poetry (Carolee, Deb, and Jill)

Kelli Russell Agodon

NaPoWriMo (Maureen Thorsen)

Poetic Asides (Robert Lee Brewer)

Writer’s Island

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The Poets: NaPoWriMo 2011

Here’s a list of poets participating in NaPoWriMo 2011. If you’d like your blog link added to (or subtracted from) the list, just leave it in thecomment section. In an effort to save time I carried over my list from last year.  If you’d like to set up a free blog, wordpress.com is an easy option. I have a blog that I use just for writing drafts with friends, and I have it set so that it is “hidden” from the search engines. It seems like a good idea to keep my horrid first drafts to myself and my friends!

• Shanna Compton
• Jane Creighton
• Jilly Dibka
• Carrie Etter
• Uma Gowrishankar
• Kirsten Kaschock
• Rob Kirstner
• Becca Klaver
• Juan Pablo Laso
• Ada Limon
• Robert Lunday
• Dana Guthrie Martin
• Alexis Quinlan
• Robin Reagler
• Rutgers Poets
• Charlie Scott
• Michelle Grimes Shamasneh
• Carolee Sherwood
• Kathleen Stidham

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Happy National Poetry Month 2011!

National Poetry Month begins today, April 1st, 2011.  At Writers in the Schools (WITS) we send out an email with a child’s poem every day for the month. Find out about that and other poetry offerings here.

If you are truly brave and want to WRITE a poem a day this April, consider participating in NaPoWriMo. Don’t be shy. I’ll be blogging away at it here and would love your company!

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Pilfering Poetry

Charlie Chaplin image via Wikipedia

Feeling anxious staring at the blank page? Check out the great writing prompt at Big Tent Poetry this week. Click here to join the fun in the Circus Big Top.

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Write to Noguchi 3: Black Hole Sun

Black Hole Sun, originally uploaded by BrianKG.

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Photography, Travel, Writing Exercise, Noguchi, sculpture, Seattle

Write to Noguchi 1

Through the Looking Glass, originally uploaded to flickr by slackley.

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Write to Twombly 4: Nini’s Painting

This is Nini’s Painting by CyTwombly. Poets, take your mark, get set. Go!

Filed under: Art, Poetry, Writing Exercise, Arts, cy twombly, Visual Arts

Write to Twombly 3: The Night Watch

My friend Jane and I are writing together this month. Twombly makes the job a lot easier.

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Write to Twombly 2

Write with me?

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Write to Twombly 1: Wilder Shores of Love

I’ve been keeping busy trying to write to Cy Twombly art. I thought I’d post the painting of the day here. Please feel free to write along with me. My rough drafts will be on my Poem a Day blog, Rogue Notes.

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Open 100: The 100 Word Poem

Tomorrow is Pearl’s 100th day of school, a big holiday in Kindergarten, I am realizing. She wrote a 100 word poem for the 100 Museum, and I’m going to do one too, although it won’t get to be in any museum. If you’d like join us–and I hope you will–please leave a link in the comment section. Ready? Write.

[photo by Leo Reynolds via flickr]

To review the Big Window archives of writing exercises, click here.

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DIY Dream Poem

Here's a fun sounding exercise from Read Write Poem. It's by Bruce Covey. Let us know if you give it a try!

X=13, Y=21

Where there are coins, there’s matter,
A narrow strip of over 700,000 in this province.
Today the birds are green and the roofs are woven
Of string. You pick the spot, please:
Its zoo built with moment upon moment of cola fountains
(although the one at the center sprouts ginger ale), or
The checkerboard landscape with a single checker making me sweat.
A nest of spiders spins its lines of code — where something is and isn’t —
underneath the netting, the surface para-graph,
A wooden barrel in front of every scrap.
Half kangaroo and half gorilla would be very versatile,
Especially here, where rain has turned the road to muck.
Next to the thicket and upon a rock, my translator
Teaches card tricks to all the babies, changes their diapers.
Later we played an asphalt fight until the killer bees,
Digitally enhanced, came — an extensive natural race
That brings the good in night, its tropical players.

by Bruce Covey

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Beware, Beware: The Poetry Instigator

If you are always looking for new poetry writing prompts, there's a new kid on the block, The Poetry Instigator. It's a blog, it's a forum, it's a poetry machine, I tell ye! They're completely mad over there. I think you'll love it.

photo by shikoooooo via flickr

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Open 48: Death and Shoes (Stolen from Linda Jacobs)

I like this writing exercise by Linda Jacobs so much that I’ve stolen it. Well, provided a link to it anyway.  Check out her idea of writing about death and shoes on the blog, Totally Optional Prompts. I think it’s a keeper. If you give this one a try, let us know. And you get extra points if you remember the old gospel song, Traveling Shoes.

Death Came A Knockin (Travelin Shoes) – Ruthie Foster

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