April 2020 remains... which means...
You will have a change to write poetry even if you've never done it before—the writing prompts aim to demystify the process of writing a poem. This will not take the place of the 2020 Writing Exercise Series, but will be in addition to it, so there will be a bounty of poetry to feast your eyes upon.
So. Let's begin.
April 27, 2020
National Poetry Month 2020 Activity Pack Day 27
1) Let's start out with this quick video of Charles Wright talking about poetry being a reason for living and reading some of his work
2) TV TIME! Not about Covid19, but here is a lovely and sad poem by Irish poet Eavan Boland called "Quarantine".
Here is the same poem, but with an animation/video and read by an actor.
And here is a >1 minute video of Charles Wright reading his short poem "No Angel"
3) Now go read one, or preferably all of the following three 'recently' published poems:
“The Melancholy Sound of Fog Horns” by Stephen Dunn in Beltway Poetry Quarterly Issue 21:2, Spring 2020.
"Treetops" by Jill Mceldowney in Bodega Magazine 91, March 2020.
"A Weekend is One Thing and a Thing Later" by Lee Hodge in Heartwood Issue 8.
4) Go read all of the following three poems that were published more than two years ago:
5) Now that we've listened to some Eavan Boland's poetry, let's watch her discussing her upbringing and poetry in the world at large.
6) The time machine is set to April 5, 2018 for this "Cooking with a Pet" exercise from 2018's National Poetry Month prompt series. and see where your imagination/pen/keyboard takes you.
