Tag: national poetry month
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Paint Chip Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 11/30
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 was going to be a blackout poetry day, using my new Make Blackout Poetry book. Yes, a book […]
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Book Spine Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 7/31
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 tried a book spine haiku. We have had several days of spring weather, and the cats […]
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Nail Polish Color Name Poetry: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 6/30
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 was inspired by Christie’s Nail Polish Color Name Poetry. I looked in the cabinet for my […]
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Paint Chip Poem: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM 4/30
This month, I’m joining several writers to play with poetry for National Poetry Writing Month. Today I’m creating another paint chip poem using an exercise from Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge’s Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words. For this exercise, Wooldridge asks her workshop participants to collect words–action words as well as answers to questions like What […]
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When You Give a Tree an Email Address #NaPoWriMo18 #NPM2018
When you give a tree an email address, expect love letters Paeans to its radiant beauty, long limbs, strength, and shade, Polite inquiries into its health, best wishes for long life. This poem is a sijo, a Korean form I was introduced to in a poem by Ms. Chiubooka Writes. A sijo is […]
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How Do You Know If It’s Done? #NaPoWriMo18 #NPM2018
You can’t pop a poem in the oven set the timer go about your business until–DING–it’s done. You can’t press your finger to your poem its pillow top springs back when it’s ready You can’t take your poem’s temperature measure the thermometer’s rise 190° and it’s not quite ready 212° and it’s too dry You […]
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What’s In My Gratitude Journal: NaPoWriMo
I’m participating in National Poetry Writing Month, NaPoWriMo, in celebration of National Poetry Month. Today’s poem was inspired by a prompt at Amy Ludwig VanDerwater’s blog, The Poem Farm (plus a little help from William Stafford’s “What’s In My Journal“): I know many people who keep thankful journals. Some call them gratitude journals. These are books for […]
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