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Day 29 Janis Joplin: A Song of Great Social and Political Import
Thanks to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompt! “Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that takes its inspiration from the life of a...
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Day 28 Party Planning
Thanks to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompt! " Music features heavily in human rituals and celebrations. We play music at parties; we play it...
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Day 27 Gaslit
Thanks to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompts! “ W.H. Auden’s “ Musée des Beaux Arts ” takes its inspiration from a very particular painting:...
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Day 26 Sonnets in iambic pentameter are not invited to my birthday
Thank you to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompt. [I think?!] “ Try your hand at a sonnet – or at least something “sonnet-shaped.” Think about...
3 days ago1 min read


Day 25 - Feb 2023 Booker T and the Stax Revue
Thank you to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompt: “In her poem, senzo , Evie Shockley recounts the experience of being at a live concert,...
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Day 24 A self-righteous rant
Thank you to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompt: “In her poem, Duet , Lisa Russ Spaar tells the story of two sisters making music together,...
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Day 23 Feathered Performance
Day 23 Feathered Performance Thank you to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompt: “Humans might be the only species to compose music, but we’re...
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Day 22 Thanking Bible Camp for Making Me Peel Potatoes
Thank you to Na/GloPoWriMo for the prompt: “In her poem, Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons , Diane Wakoski is far more grateful than I...
Apr 221 min read


Day 21 Construction
Thanks to Na/GloPoWriMo for today’s prompts: “ Sawako Nakayasu’s poem “ Improvisational Score ” is a rather surreal prose poem describing...
Apr 211 min read


Day 20 Ballad of the Rainbow Alliance
Thanks to Na/GloPoWriMo for today’s prompt (among other things) “to write a poem informed by musical phrasing or melody, that employs...
Apr 201 min read


Day 19 A 4-7-5 day
Prompt from NaPoWriMo: …" our daily prompt – optional as always. This one is inspired by Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s poem “ Song .” The word...
Apr 191 min read


Day 18 Deceleration
Thank you to the prompt from Na/GloPoWriMo: “Today’s resource is a virtual visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum . … Like our...
Apr 181 min read


Day 17 Another 5-7-5 Day
Super interesting prompts from NaPoWriMo but today I didn’t even get to big ideas. Instead, another 5-7-5 day. Haiku this is not since...
Apr 171 min read
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Day 16 Playing! [You task master]
Fantastic prompts from Na/GloPoWriMo. Have some great ideas for future poems. Here's what I posted on NaPoWriMo just before the deadline:...
Apr 161 min read


Day 15 From your diaphragm
Thank you to Na/GloPoWriMo for providing Brother J.C.’s concert introduction and Jane Kenyon’s poem The Shirt . And for the following...
Apr 151 min read


Day 14 Summer Sizzle
Thanks to Na/GloPoWriMo for : “ today’s (optional) prompt is inspired by a poem that’s an old favorite of mine, by Kay Ryan . Crustacean...
Apr 141 min read


Day 13 Muffled Cry
Thank you to Na/GloPoWriMo for today’s prompt: “Donald Justice’s poem, “ There is a gold light in certain old paintings ,” plays with...
Apr 131 min read


Day 12 Misappropriation
Here’s the Na/GloPoWriMo prompt, although it was WAY too ambitious for my day. All I tried to accomplish was reference to a myth and some...
Apr 121 min read


Day 11 At first I was afraid, I was petrified
Thanks for Na/GloPoWriMo’s prompt today: “ Take a look at Kyle Dargan’s “ Diaspora: A Narcolepsy Hymn .” This poem is a loose villanelle...
Apr 111 min read


Day 10 When the Next-door Neighbours Bought a Pomeranian (in 2016)
Thanks to Na/GloPoWriMo for another great prompt and an introduction to another great poem.: “ Yesterday, we looked at a poem that used...
Apr 102 min read

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