National Poetry Writing Month

National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #5 (pt. 2)

2019/04/05 — Leave a comment

Here I use the napowrimo.net prompt: ‘a poem that incorporates at least one of the following: (1) the villanelle form, (2) lines taken from an outside text, and/or (3) phrases that oppose each other in some way.’ I didn’t follow the example and include song lyrics, because music publishers tend to be more alert to copyright infringement—but I did happen to be watching Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged appearance on YouTube, so my ‘outside text’ is ‘Come as you are’. I specifically countered that sentiment with ‘dress it up’, but tried to include opposites throughout.

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National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #5 (pt. 1)

2019/04/05 — Leave a comment

Here I use the prompt provided by poet (and bookstore owner) Chris Jarmick on his blog, POETRYisEVERYTHING.

The task for Day 5 is to write a poem that includes seven references to falling. My approach was to use parts of song titles that contain some form of the word ‘fall’. All of the songs titles I chose are listed here.

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National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #2 (pt. 1)

2019/04/02 — Leave a comment

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.

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