Tuesday, April 29, 2014

POETRY ROUND-UP: WRAPPING UP NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2014






Tomorrow is the last day of April.
This month has flown so quickly.
The end of National Poetry Month is here.
Our intense and intentional celebration of poetry is almost over.


As we exit  this formal time for relishing poetry and  honoring verse, I became curious about the posts I had previously written related to poetry.

Prior to April 2014 I had written 15 poetry posts, ranging in subjects that connected poetry to love, pain, memoir, and experimentation.

Several types of found poetry were explored:  blackout or erasure poetry, book spine poetry, along with carved books.

More traditional forms were also explored including ars poetica, ekphrastic poetry, and ghazals.

And any consideration of poetry is not complete without acknowledging the  poetry of witness, how poetry gives both reader and writer a place to stand, as well as the resilience of poets who write such poetry.

What new poem or poet did you discover during this past month?
What familiar poem resurfaced for you and reminded you of why you love it?

Did you write a poem-- or two-- or seven-- or more?
What new technique or strategy or form did you try?
What poem or poet did you imitate?

Please feel free to share in this space your new learning, discoveries, successes-- and even your failures as you attempted to more deeply explore the world of poetry.

For ideas to continue in your explorations, you may want to explore one or two of my past poetry-related posts. Enjoy these posts from the past year.

Love and Poetry

Blackout Poetry and Carved Novels

Poetry: A Place to Stand

Book Spine Poetry

Poetry in the Time of Pain

Guzzling Ghazals

Came Again, Anaphora

Ars Poetica

Poetic Memoirs

Found Poetry and OCIRA 2013

Essential Poetry Collections

Ekphrastic Poetry

The Poetry of Resilience

Exploding a Moment: Exploring with Writing

Against Forgetting: Poetry of Witness

You may also want to  review or reread the more recent collection of poetry posts from  National Poetry Month 2014

Women and Poetry

Men in Poetry

Haiku Meditations

Conversations in Poetry

The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Mourning

Gravestones: Writing a Life


And as we move into May and leave behind this formally designated and  artificially provided time for us to read, write, celebrate, and discover poetry, my hope is that you will continue to do this as a normal, if not necessary and required, part of  your literacy life.


Today's Deeper Writing Possibilities

What new poem or poet  did you discover during this past month?
What familiar poem resurfaced for you and reminded you of why you love it?

Did you write a poem-- or two-- or seven-- or more?
What new technique or strategy or form did you try?
What poem or poet did you imitate?

Write an personal  essay about your new discoveries and experiences with poetry this month.
Or write a persuasive essay about why it is important to celebrate National Poetry Month.

Write a poem about why poetry is important  to you.

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