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Book Review 09/50: Redemption by Gwen Plano

This has to be my fastest read in years. I completed the book in 5 days, which is a record, considering I’m a slow reader and there are a whole lot of things that happen during my day that I pay attention to ( note: I did not say ‘need my attention’). I wouldn’t count […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 30- This is my prayer

Our final daily resource is this repository of podcasts hosted by the Scottish Poetry Library. And now for our last prompt of the year – optional, as always! Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem in which the speaker is identified with, or compared to, a character from myth or legend, as […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 29- Albatross

Today’s daily resource is Poems for These Hours, an Instagram account that shares new poems regularly. And now for our optional prompt. If you’ve been paying attention to pop-music news over the past couple of weeks, you may know that Taylor Swift has released a new double album titled “The Tortured Poets Department.” In recognition of […]

Book Review 08/50 : Grow Damn it! by Cheryl Oreglia

Warning: Lengthy Review It’s the name of the book that caught my attention, a year ago, when I read it on Sally Cronin’s blog. But that was not when I bought the book. It slipped out of my mind and I bought it a year later when I saw the author’s post promoting the book […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 28- The dragon we created/ Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge, No. 31, 4/23/24,

Our featured resource for the day is Harriet Books, the Poetry Foundation’s online website devoted to poetry book reviews, poetry news, and poetry-themed blog poets. Finally, our optional prompt for the day asks you to try your hand at writing a sijo. This is a traditional Korean verse form. A sijo has three lines of 14-16 syllables. […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 27- Etat Paryaaptam

Our featured resource for the day is Poetry Pause, the “daily dispatch” of the League of Canadian Poets. And now for our prompt – optional, as always!  Today we’d like to challenge you to write an “American sonnet.” What’s that? Well, it’s like a regular sonnet but . . . fewer rules? Like a traditional Spencerian […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

NaPoWriMo 2024: Day 23- My Superhero

Our featured resource for the day is a series of poetry films from the On Being Project, which also hosts the Poetry Unbound podcast, featuring short explorations of a new poem every few days. And now for our (optional) prompt. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem about, or involving, a superhero, taking your inspiration from these four poems in which Lucille […]