national poetry month
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Bright cold sun of April, the northwest winds whipping your cheeks red and spreading the first of the season’s pollen. Shock of yellow Daffodils holding on through sleet and snow cover reminders of the coming warmth. You pick handfuls of stems and spread them on the concrete leaving trails of green against the composite like…
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The elusive sonnet. Shakespearean, Petrarchan, traditional or modern, love them or hate them. There’s so much scholarship out there about sonnets, but my favorite is definitely Stephen Fry’s section on sonnets from The Ode Less Travelled. Learning about ancient metered poetic forms from a comedian really does it for me! Here’s an excerpt: So for…
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I am thrilled to share another wonderful April of poetry with you all! Local highlights this month include: -April 7, Flying Words Project at Kent State -April 9, “How Do We Talk To Each Other?” The Cleveland Humanities Festival -April 21, Ekphrastacy at Heights Arts -April 24-May 1, Lakefront Cleveland Poetry Festival, including workshops, open…
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Happy poetry month everyone! There will be a few changes going on with my site over the next month, but I will be sure to share poetry prompts for each day below! Stay tuned each day for a new prompt! April 1 – Imagine you are underwater. Describe the feeling. Fear? Euphoria? What do you…
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Due to the Covid-19 quarantine in Ohio, the Ekphrastacy April 2020 event at Heights Arts in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was cancelled. Fortunately the staff at HA got together and had us poets record our poems for a virtual ekphrastacy! My poem “Invisible Storm” is up on Heights Arts’ website. It was inspired by “Black Horse”…
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We need poems and poets now more than ever. If ever a group of humans existed who could see the world through a broken lens, a skewed lens, a rosy lens, it is poets. I am so glad I can speak about the world and read what truths other poets have gifted us. Thank you,…
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1 – The Fool 2 – Satellites in Orbit 3 – The Letter “E” appears in odd numbers. You cannot use the letter “E”. 4 – “I used to be a roller coaster girl” jessica Care moore 5 – Write the moment you decide to cut a corner. 6 – Kigo – write a haiku…
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Happy National Poetry Month, everyone! Our Ohio April rang in with snow still on the ground, but that doesn’t stop me from being so grateful for this month! Not only does it bring in spring flowers and bright colors, but we get to talk about poetry! Just like last year I will be completing a…
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I have undertaken the #napomo challenge of writing a poem a day for the whole month of April. I will be updating this post with my prompts/inspirations for each day. Follow along if you like! April – National Poetry Month – Poem-A-Day Challenge 1 – Serqet, Egyptian goddess of Scorpions & crater on Ganymede 2…
Amanda Stovicek D'Alessandro 