To continue with our slightly unusual article subject and format (and the third person narrative started the week before last), we have a new subject to chat about, one we warned you about earlier. Yep. Facebook.
Or to put it as the pundits do: one of the social networking (or utility) tools that has grabbed a [...]

*and the one wherein Deb and Dana refer to themselves in third person
For this week’s Get Your Poem On, Deb and Dana are throwing a wrench into the works. We know y’all like to come here to the Get Your Poem On post and, well, get. your. poem. on. Which makes perfect sense. However, in [...]

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!).
Button Sample and Code
 

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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 [...]

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 [...]

30 Poems in 30 Days. How has that challenge been for you? Let us know what you’re doing.
As you cast about for yet one more inspiration, be sure to use the random prompts or previous prompts and share any tricks you use to get through the rough spots.
Are you writing American Sentences, haiku or prose [...]

Read Write Poem’s chain poem, which a few have donated a line towards, is here:

Aunt April
Flowered mesh captures hair floating above sun-glassed eyes
She sneaked the harsh Chinese cigarettes
Striking the match on the bottom of her shoe
Her cloyingly touch caused my brother to seethe
She changed her name and learned to swim
Rolled her hips and shimmied [...]

It’s post time at Read Write Poem, this week about aunts you have know, or others - familiar or unfamiliar.
Or maybe you wrote about something else entirely. We care less about what got you started than reading what you wrote. Actually, we do like to hear what got you started. We like all things poetry-related, [...]

This week’s prompt is aunt, simply because today is my favorite aunt’s birthday. I call her Aunt B (for Barbara), but she is also known as Babs, Barbie, Sissy, Mom, Mother, Grams, Grandma, Grandmother and Mrs. Linn.
Perhaps you have a favorite aunt (or uncle or cousin). But then, so many families are crazy (fun or [...]

We’ve made a NaPoWriMo button that you are most welcome to add to your blog or posts.
Button Sample and Code

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