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National Poetry Writing Month

A collection of 11 posts

NaPoWriMo: The Home Stretch!

If I can write two more poems before midnight tomorrow, I will have completed my first successful NaPoWriMo. In an ideal world where there is always enough time for writing, my fiction would not have had to take such a blow so I could write poetry this month. But the

Live From New York City!

I’m writing this from a computer lab at my temporary residence in New York City, where I’ve landed to work on the Religious Institute‘s new “faith and sexuality” guidebook on bisexuality and faith. I’m surrounded by what has been called the “dream team” of bisexual activism

NaPoWriMo: Ice Storm Poetry

Poem #9: Ice and Thunder It is a time of ice and thunder the dog cowering in the doorway brass tacks on the glass and trees groaning outside. Love is an action, not a feeling this is what Jesus taught us Their power will be out for days and I

NaPoWriMo: Day 8

So far, I’ve been successful in writing one poem a day for the first week of April (although not all have been successful poems). Here are a few of my first drafts. Poem #5: Dinosaur Teeth That summer we were twelve I didn’t know that only bubble-gum string

NaNoEdMo not quite there ... NaPoWriMo has Arrived!

Last night, I came home from the Easter festivities bearing a headache from too much sugar but still determined to log my last two hours to achieve victory in NaNoEdMo … even though editing was really the last thing in the world I wanted to do. Still, I was mostly dismayed

Back to Writing ... at Last!

After the long wedding-induced haitus, I am SO GLAD to be back to writing at last. A lot has happened in my “writing life” even though very little of it was actually writing. But hey, the writing world didn’t stop spinning because I neglected my desk. Imagine that! 1.

call for submissions

Put Those Poems to Good Use

I just entered three of my poems from National Poetry Writing Month into WEbook‘s poetry contest. WEbook calls themselves the “American Idol” of creative writing. Essentially, it’s a vast web community of writers and readers who write, upload, read, and critique the user-generated content on the site. From

NaPoWriMo: Did She Make It?

Yes, I did manage to write my three remaining poems last night, much to my own surprise. I had to read them again this morning to see what they said because I was so tired when I wrote them. This is the good thing about a writing practice: at a

NaPoWriMo: Observations

There are only two days (counting today) of NaPoWriMo left, and I have just a handful of poems to finish. A few of the things I noticed during the month: * When it comes to poetry, I do far better with structure than with free-verse. With free-verse, there are just too

magnetic poetry

National Poetry Writing Month: Magnetic Poetry

Not feeling very intrinsically inspired to write poetry last night, I finally whipped out the magnetic poetry for some help: Poems always look more fun as magnets, but in case that image is too blurry, this is the poem: This storm is hard music to face: A metal rain hurricane.

April Writing Challenges

It’s the last day of March, and if you find yourself a sucker for writing challenges, roll up your sleeves for April. April is the month for Script Frenzy, a challenge to write a 100-page script in 30 days, and it’s also National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) with