Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is another one that made me immediately recoil: write a poem in the form of a fan letter to a celebrity. I made this palatable by using the viator form, in which the first line of the first stanza becomes the second line of the second stanza, and so on, until the poem ends with the line with which it began.
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NaPoWriMo 2016
National Poetry Writing Month 2016, Day #2
Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to ‘write a poem that takes the form of a family portrait.’ We never did those in my family, so (as Mad magazine might put it) blecch!
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National Poetry Writing Month 2016, Day #1
Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to write a lune, a three-line poem with a 5-3-5 syllable count.
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