We’ve made a NaPoWriMo celebration button that you are most welcome to add to your blog. (Although I’d rather toast your success or commiserate a less-than-planned outcome!).
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I’m always impressed by the potential of Science Fiction to look at everyday life from an entirely different point of view. Issues and topics considered within an alien setting can help the reader to see things from a fresh perspective. Most people think of science fiction in the form of novels or films but science [...]

Well, you’re near the end of April, of National Poetry Month, of NaPoWriMo!
 
Sigh…in relief, remorse, resolution…
Some of you have practiced writing daily and some have posted a poem daily. Some have made up your own rules and kept them or broken them. Some (like me) found you couldn’t stay with daily writing early on.
Some have [...]

From now until midnight one week from today, comments on this post will be open, so you can leave a permalink to your blog post for this week’s contribution, be it in jargon or any other language.
Check back through the week and see what others have written in response to this prompt or inspirations from [...]

Sonnet LIV.
“O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem”
 
O! HOW much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns, [...]

We live in a world of increasing specialization. Just about every little things has an entire field of knowledge dedicated to it, and each of those little fields has its own vocabulary.
Science uses a whole lot of Latin, psychology uses the word affect in a very strange way, and unless you happen to be a [...]

From now until midnight one week from today, comments on this post will be open, so you can leave a permalink to your blog post for this week’s contribution. (A study in contrasts - or any other idea you had.)
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Please take a few moments to read the the about page, the code of [...]

Here, below, is a list of poet’s (by blog name) who said they were participating in NaPoWriMo this year. I added everyone who commented or who emailed. It might be that you’ve langished since (it’s okay…I’m afraid I am have, too) the initial excitement phase. You wrote some poetry. That is good.

9 to 5 poet [...]

Place in poems – who needs a GPS device when we’re grounded in detail?
Lately as I’ve been driving from one place to another I’ve started jotting down interesting town names and street signs: Tulip Lane, Sleepy Hollow Road, Famous Raymond’s Hot Boiled Peanuts, The Best Little Hair House in Georgia (a hair salon!) and the [...]

What happens when you pour balsamic vinegar over extra-virgin olive oil? The oil rests on top of the vinegar in the cruet, but if you shake the contents, you create a delicious salad dressing.
Prompt:
For your poem this week, try combining two elements that don’t seem to go together at first glance. Here’s the process:
• Think [...]