Are you up to Lunchlines' National Poetry Month Challenge?
All you have to do is write a poem a day in April.
No one's going to check on you, grade your work, or force you to write every day.
The point is not to craft beautiful poems daily, it's to discover what it takes for you to sits and writes. Every. Day. The drafts might be mush, empty twaddle, or just plain awful. And that's fine.
The main thing is to make yourself sit and write.
It could be the same time every day. It might have to wait until 11:53 pm. The poems could all be about what you see outside the same window or about the paperclip on your desk. Although writing 30 poems about a paperclip would be tough, even for a Rumi or Basho.
At the end of the month you get bragging rights and 30 -- yes, 30 -- brandy-new poems. Or however many you end up writing during April. When was the last time you produced, say, 15 new poems in a month?
Ready? Let's begin!
The Academy of American Poets' National Poetry Month page: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41
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As you write your poems, e-mail them to either Maggie or I and we'll add them to that day's post.
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Rehoboth Beach
ReplyDeleteHe claims there are three hotels
at Rehoboth Beach.
There are six.
The beach is narrow and flat
the dunes diminished.
With the next great storm
there will be no beach left
and no hotels.
Peter Goodwin