associated press asked for more inaugural poetry

Lawrence Gladeview has posted his thoughts about Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist.” Find the post at  Righteous Rightings.

In case you missed it, the first stop was Donna Vorreyer’s, at her blog. Next was Catherine Fitchett at Poetry Chook.

You can find information about the chapbook and tour here, including a link to where to find it and read it online.

Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker challenged 100 poets to note the political climate of each of President Obama’s first days in office. The blogged poems have been anthologized in a work called Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days, which will be released in April (ahem, National Poetry Month, although you can pre-order a copy at their blog site).

Read about it here. A hat tip to Rethabile Masilo who posted a link to Rachel Zucker’s poem at his blog, Poéfrika.

Catherine Fitchett is one of our hosts on the (virtual) book tour of Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist.” Find out what she has to say at Poetry Chook.

In case you missed it, the first stop was Donna Vorreyer’s, at her blog.

You can find information about the chapbook and tour here, including a link to where to find it and read it online.

If you would like to get on the tour host schedule, join the Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour group and leave us a note on the wire or forum page. (We’re looking for a few more people in general and for April, specifically. It’s not to late to get on the tour and get a copy of January G. O’Neil’s Underlife, our tour for April.)

You might know we’re planning another prompt-every-day for those who love (or who have a love-hate relationship with)  daily poem-writing in April (which is National Poetry Month in the United States — although there is an international following of writing a poem every day in April, too, so it is not just about the States).

This is a call for prompts because we want to run your ideas, one every day, in April. So here’s what to do:

• Prompts must be no more than 250 words, and we will take the first 30 that we receive.
• Include “NaPoWriMo Prompt” in the subject line of your email as well as your username (e.g., the name you use when you log in) so we can match you up with your prompt and give you the link love.
• Email your submission (in the body of the email — no attachments please) to prompts (at) readwritepoem (dot) org!

We’ll let you know when we’ve got all we need, but don’t delay because we want to be ready come April Fools’ Day.