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napowrimo: the button is here

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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Next Tuesday is April Fool’s Day. (You’d think it would end March Madness- the State’s NCAA college basketball championship, but no, the final four is April 5th and the final game is April 7th.)
April is National Poetry Month (in the US). Read Write Poem will be supporting you as you celebrate, in a variety of ways. Read on [...]

Carolee is taking a little time off to be with her family this week, so I am stepping in to give you a place to talk about the current poll, should you want to.
We had a lot of voting in response to this week’s question: “Who in your ‘real life’ knows that you’re a poet?”
As [...]

Hi everyone. I thought I’d check in and see how you’re doing. So how are you doin’?
We’ve been kinda busy around here, and I thought you might like an overview of what’s been happening and what’s in the works.
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On keeping up with the action:
We have a request from paisley (and maybe others would like [...]

It’s post time at Read Write Poem, this week about traveling companions.
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, and then some.
So link on! And enjoy another week of [...]

I’m glad you’re here, reading this prompt.
Participating in online poetry communities is a strange and interesting experience. It’s a private practice made uniquely public. It’s quite likely that only a comparative few will read the work we put out there in the blogosphere; fewer still will comment. Yet we keep finding and creating sites like [...]




WEEKLY READ WRITE PROMPT

Aug. 18, 2008 — The current Get Your Poem On post is here. This is where you leave us a link to your blog, this week in response to Juliet's prompt to be in the moment.

POLL DANCE

Aug. 17, 2008 —This time the poll dance is a collaboration. Meet the Funnelcakes. And the monkeys.

There's a new poll up. But you can keep talking to or about the Funnelcakes for a while.


RANDOM PROMPTS

A different word or phrase will appear here each time you visit the site or refresh the page. Your current prompt is — carte blanche


RANDOM WRITING TIP

Write a narrative poem or an epic poem about an event in history that moves you. Do you feel drawn to a certain time period from the past? What about the music? It might be big band music, sixties folk rock, Duke Ellington jazz, Renaissance madrigals, Gregorian chants, sitar music, etc. Think of the food, the clothing, the setting and create a mood that’s evocative of the time period you’ve chosen.


RANDOM READING TIP

Even though free verse is the dominant style now, formal poetry was popular for hundreds of years. Alternate some of the modern or classical masters of formal verse with modern writers of free verse. Don’t know where to start? Try Shakespeare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marilyn Hacker, Agha Shahid Ali, Maxine Kumin and many others.


RANDOM COLLABORATING TIP

Use instant messaging to write a poem with a collaborator by taking turns one word, one phrase or one line at a time. With group chat, you can do this with more than one partner.

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