Tag: national poetry month
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View from the Window #WritingwithWoolf #NationalPoetryMonth #NaPoWriMo2020
For National Poetry Month, I am writing poems inspired by words, ideas, and images in Virginia Woolf’s Diary. I’m fascinated by the way Woolf uses her diary to create her novels. The Waves has a particularly long gestation period, and there are many short passages developing a central image. Today, I’m borrowing a line from…
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There Are the Rocks: #WritingwithWoolf #NationalPoetryMonth #NaPoWriMo2020
For National Poetry Month, I will be writing poems inspired by entries in Virginia Woolf’s Diary Volume Three: 1925-1930. For more ideas for designing an April writing or creativity challenge for yourself, see my post, Looking for an April Creativity Challenge?. I am still working through VW’s very rich entry from Wednesday 8 April 1925.…
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Magnet Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 30/30 #sol19
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. I’m always sad when the end of March comes around, and it’s time to stop the daily slice. But…
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Paint Chip Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 29/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. Today I decided to do a backwards paint chip poem. I don’t think that’s really a thing, but I…
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Metaphor Dice Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 28/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. I thought that all of these poetry metaphors had some potential, and I initially thought I might write a…
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Haikubes: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 27/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. For the last four days of this daily poetry challenge, I decided I will write one final poem using…
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Paint Chip Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 26/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. Today I decided to focus on some new paint chip interior design brochures that my mom picked up for…
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Metaphor Dice Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 25/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. Today, metaphor dice poetry meets equation poetry (metaphor dice + equations = poem). This mash-up idea came from following…
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Magnet Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 23/30 #sol19
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. I liked my Poetry Mega Set Word Magnets so much that I decided to order two more kits: Cat…
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Haikubes: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 22/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. I’ll be creating poems using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, paint chips and anything else that catches my fancy. I’ve tried to play with the haikubes a few times, and nothing has come of it aside from cats…
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