Dear Tuesday,
Is it coffee yet?
Love,
Kevin
(2 April 2019)
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #2 (pt. 2)
Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: to write a poem that ends with a question.
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #2 (pt. 1)
Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING.
This prompt is basically the same as last year’s Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 18. As I did then, the poem I used for my line-by-line backwards response was ‘Ophelia’ from Janée J. Baugher’s book Coördinates of Yes. This time, I stuck more closely to the line structure of the original poem while writing, though I edited and revised according to my sense of the internal rhythm of this new poem.
Dear Monday…
Dear Monday,
What foolishness do you have in store today?
Love,
Kevin
(1 April 2019)
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #1 (pt. 2)
Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: an instruction poem. Or, rather, my particular twist on it. I limited myself to television, because it’s late and I’m getting sleepy…
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #1 (pt. 1)
Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING.
‘Use at least 3 of the 135 phrases Shakespeare takes credit for making famous in a poem.’
Going out on a Sunday (a poem)
A bizarre little dream from last night.
Dear Sunday…
Dear Sunday,
So long, March. It was real.
Love,
Kevin
(31 March 2019)
National Poetry Writing Month 2019, early-bird poem
For this early-bird poem, I followed the napowrimo.net prompt—sort of. Instead of a self-portrait as a historical or mythical figure, I made myself the figure in a photograph I took in January 2009 of a man standing in a graveyard.
It’s a book that you can pre-order
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(30 March 2019)
