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NaPoWriMo2023- Day 24- Review of my willpower

I’m back home and strangely enough, I’m glad. I say, ‘strangely’ because that’s not how I was feeling when I boarded the flight. I guess, I am still getting accustomed to living in this country. I don’t know what i was dreading – the hot weather, the crowded, rustic airport, the mad traffic or this […]

NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 22- I saw it

Today’s featured resource is the Open House poetry radio program. On each program, hosts Cornelius Eady and Patricia Spears Jones interview poets about their new and recent work. You can listen online, or live every Friday on NYC’s WBAI. Today’s prompt (optional, as always, and taken from our archives) is a variation on a teaching exercise that the poet Anne Boyer uses with students […]

NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 21- Courage

Our daily resource is the BBC’s archive of poetry-related writing, where you’ll find essays and articles aplenty, exploring different poets, poems, and poetic forms. Last but not least, here’s today’s (optional) prompt. Begin by reading Sarah Gambito’s poem “Grace.” Now, choose an abstract noun from the list below, and then use that as the title for […]

NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 20 – What are these toys?

Today’s poetry resource is a little discussion about poetry in bookstores. There are plenty of bookstores around with good poetry sections (two of my favorites are Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC and Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, Maine). But did you know that there are also a handful of bookstores that only sell poetry? Check out Boston’s Grolier […]

NaPoWriMo 2023: Day 19 – Brendon is coming

For today’s daily resource I’d like to share this article about poetry and TikTok. When I first started writing poetry seriously, blogs were the big thing. That was twenty-five years ago, and now there’s poetry Twitter and poetry on Instagram and, yes, as new technology builds atop the old, poetry on TikTok. And without further ado, here’s our daily (optional) prompt. […]

NaPoWriMo 2023 : Day 18 -When I began writing?

Our daily resource is the YouTube channel of Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room. Here, you can check out more than 100 videos of poetry readings, lectures, and discussions. There’s much to explore! Finally, here’s our prompt for the day, once again taken from our archives and, as always, optional. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write […]

Welcome to the WordCrafter “Poetry Treasures 3: Passions” Book Blog Tour

I’m thrilled to be part of this anthology of poems centred around the theme, ‘Passion’ . Poetry Treasures- 3, compiled by Robbie Cheadle and Kaye Lynn Booth has 12 amazing poets. Read the post below to know more. You can also listen to me reading my poem – A child called, ‘Passion’. Welcome to the […]

NaPoWriMo 2023- Day 17 – An ode to the good, old coconut

Today’s resource is a pair of online reading series. If you’re looking for a regular poetry fix you can enjoy from the comfort of your laptop, why not try the Poets in Pajamas series, which hosts readings every month? Poet and professor Jordan Stempleman also hosts a monthly reading which you can attend online (and you can […]

NaPoWriMo 2023 : Day 16 – It’s not what you think it is

Today’s resource is Poetry Northwest’s online collection of essays exploring different poets, craft elements, and styles of poetry. And now, without further ado, our optional daily prompt, once again pulled from our archives. Today’s prompt is a poem of negation – yes (or maybe, no), I challenge you to write a poem that involves describing something in terms […]

Happy Sunday: ‘Coming Home’ is now available in most countries

My debut novel, ‘Coming Home’ is now available in most countries in paperback and on Kindle. What a pleasant surprise it was when someone I met once, at a training program, sometime in 2014 told me that they had bought the Kindle version of the book. The surprise was not that they had purchased the […]