“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”― Ursula K. Le Guin
It’s a wrap for NaPoWriMo 2024. Keep writing…sharing. Final prompt plus a few bonus prompts.
NaPoWriMo April 30th 2024 Prompt 30 NaPoWriMo finish… final… or -30-. –30– has been traditionally used by journalists in North America to indicate the end of a story or article that is submitted for editing and typesetting. Without looking it up….. write a poem about the history of -30-… how did -30- come to mean basically Then End at the end of a news story or press release. Make up a story about it as a poem.
There are things known
and there are things unknown
and in between are the doors.”
― Jim Morrison
” Perhaps we can imagine breathing in fresh mountain air, near a magnificent waterfall and negative ions will be willed into existence to brighten our mood, relieve some of our anxiety.” – CJJ
NaPoWriMo April 31rst 2024 Prompt 31 Bonus day 1 —
the 7, 7, 7 As in 7 lines…. 7 minute time limit using 7 words from any poem you would like (credit the poem). Enjoy!!!!
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
― William Blake
NaPoWriMo April 32nd 2024 Prompt 31 Bonus Day –2…. KEEEP Writing…. Keep going….
Take one (or two) of the poem (s) you wrote during the first 10 days of NaPoWriMo… and let’s renovate it. I mean lets turn it inside out, twist it, turn it and re-make it into something very different from what it once was. It doesn’t even have to resemble the original poem. You get to take it and do what you want with it. Use at least 50 percent of the old words in your new poem (or more). Try turning it into a form poem or different form poem if you’d like.
Do you know Seattle Independent Bookstore Days begin on Saturday April 27th? There are 28 participating stores this year! We are celebrating the 10th anniversary of SIBD- YAY. You can visit 1 or 3 or all of the stores. Visiting 3 stores gets you a reward and visiting all 28 in a 10 day time period gives you an even bigger award. There’s a website about it here: https://www.seattlebookstoreday.com/
BookTree is participating again. We even have an extra special First Saturday writing workshop/reading and open mic…. Our first Saturday Workshop and Reading is going to Hades!!!! Welcome to National Poetry Month and special edition of PIE (PoetryIsEverything) First Saturday. Free workshop at 4:24pm; Free Reading and Open mic begins at 6:15pm. Our workshop leaders and featured readers are: Chi Stewart, Laura Lee Bennett, and Elizabeth Carroll Hayden Keep reading for more details.
Press Release: Poets Examine Mothers and Daughters in Retelling of Greek Tale- – –The Myth of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades Retold in Modern Verse.Persephone’s abduction by Hades into the Underworld—and Demeter’s subsequent rage, scourging the earth in search of her daughter—is one of the defining myths of Western culture. Was Persephone truly abducted? Or did she go willingly?
Three local poets—Chi Stewart, Laura Lee Bennett, and Elizabeth Carroll Hayden—have written Persona poems that give this myth a real-world setting and turn the story on its head. With each poet taking on the persona of one of the three main characters—Demeter, Persephone, and Hades—the retelling takes the shape of a thoroughly modern dysfunctional family saga. Join the authors for a reading of their new chapbook—a voice play of sorts—I Am Not Cursed.
The three poets will offer a workshop starting 4:24 pm on the collaborative process in writing Persona poetry using characters from mythology, followed by writing exercises and sharing work. Then they will give a narrative performance of the work, I Am Not Cursed, at 6:15 pm, at BookTree, 609 Market St, Kirkland, WA 98033. Details…here
If you find yourself in the vicinity of Kirkland, Washington please drop into BookTree at 609 Market St. Kirkland, WA 98033 and say Hi or talk books and poetry with me. The store has new and gently-used books. The website for the store is here
Several months ago, some friends and acquaintances of mine and I started a brand new website and facebook site to help people living or visiting Western Washington to find various readings and open mics to attend. This is called WesternWashingtonPoets you can look up by area, by day of the month, what regularly scheduled readings are going on. I encourage you to attend several readings… especially during poetry month…. many readings are FREE. There is also a facebook page western washington poets network you can join and get up to the minute reminders of things going on.
“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”― Ray Bradbury
Keep Writing!!!
“To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.”― Edgar Allan Poe
The root of the word Poetry is from the Greek ποιέω (poieō), “‘I
make’”). , poiesis, meaning a “making” or ‘creation’
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