Thank you, Kim Bridgford for The Cammin Women Poets Timeline Project at the National Museum of Women [...]]]> “A Fairfield University English professor, poet and editor of the online poetry journal Mezzo Cammin, Bridgford has seen how women writers, specifically women poets, often don’t get the recognition given to their male counterparts.” (Read the quoted article here.)

Thank you, Kim Bridgford for The Cammin Women Poets Timeline Project at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. The project launches today at an event that “will serve as both a celebration of women’s accomplishments and as a fundraiser for the timeline and will feature poets Rhina Espaillat, Annie Finch, Marilyn Nelson, Alicia Ostriker, Molly Peacock, and Terri Witek. The featured visual artist is Alice Mizrachi.”

If you haven’t read the others in the series, it is worth going back. Of course, his site is easy to navigate, so doing that is easy-peasy.

Here is the definition of the project, in a nutshell: “Why do in 30 days what you can do in 30 minutes — and in front of other people no less. FaBoStaMe is a [...]]]> Dana Guthrie Martin created FaBoStaMe last year as a launch for all the other great activities associated with National Poetry Month.

Here is the definition of the project, in a nutshell: “Why do in 30 days what you can do in 30 minutes — and in front of other people no less. FaBoStaMe is a poetry-writing challenge in which participants write one poem every minute for 30 consecutive minutes, posting the poems as their status messages.”

Click here to learn more and to sign up — only 48 people can take part, so get your spot now!

Hurrah! And hurrahs to all of the 999 other members, too. (Or hoorays or hurrays or huzzahs or huzzas.)

So says David Alpaugh (along with a lot of other thoughtful things) in “The New Math of Poetry,” published last month in [...]]]> “The new math of poetry is driven not by reader demand for great or even good poetry but by the demand of myriads of aspiring poets to experience the thrill of ‘publication.’ “

So says David Alpaugh (along with a lot of other thoughtful things) in “The New Math of Poetry,” published last month in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Read the article and let us talk. What say you?

Just a snippet from Wanda McCollar’s response to Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist.” [...]]]> “I was physically drained by this poem.  I understood it on my terms.  If a poet’s innovative craftsmanship with form, word, sound, imagery, metaphor, can show me my own bones, then I want to read more of that poet’s work.”

Just a snippet from Wanda McCollar’s response to Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist.” Look for the entire post on Synecdochic Stuff and find the rest of our tour, below.

The first stop was Donna Vorreyer at her blog. Next up was Catherine Fitchett at Poetry Chook, Lawrence Gladeview at Righteous Rightings and Ren Powell at More Babel.

You can find complete information about this chapbook and tour here, including a link to where to find it and read it for yourself, online.

Next month’s tour will start mid-April. Don’t miss it!

And, in case you missed it, the first stop was Donna Vorreyer’s, at her blog. Next up was Catherine Fitchett at Poetry Chook and then Lawrence Gladeview at Righteous Rightings.

You can [...]]]> Ren Powell has just posted her take on Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist.” Find the post at More Babel.

And, in case you missed it, the first stop was Donna Vorreyer’s, at her blog. Next up was Catherine Fitchett at Poetry Chook and then Lawrence Gladeview at Righteous Rightings.

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

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 [...]]]> 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.

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, [...]]]> 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.)

This [...]]]> 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.

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 [...]]]> We start out our (virtual) book tour of Molly Gaudry’s electronic chapbook, “Anatomy for the Artist,” with Donna Vorreyer 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.)