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By: You Have, At Least Once in Your Life, Written a Poem « BlogLily

You Have, At Least Once in Your Life, Written a Poem « BlogLily — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:24:18 +0000

[...] was fun. All over the web, people are writing poetry (some secretly). And they are encouraging others to talk about poetry. And I think this is just great. Bring [...]

By: emmabolden

emmabolden — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:19:37 +0000

Bloglily, a poem vitamin, absolutely. Or, have you ever read Once Is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susann (everyone should, really.)? In which January Wayne gets the dangerous yet revitalizing vitamin shots? That’s NaPoWriMo. One dangerous yet revitalizing vitamin shot a day.

By: bloglily

bloglily — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:21:55 +0000

Emma, I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with this month — I could use a little fresh poetry in my life. It’ll be a sort of poem harvest month, this April, or like a poem vitamin, one a day. xo

By: emmabolden

emmabolden — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:48:08 +0000

Don’t worry, Jessie! I can’t tell you how many times I logged in to post at 11:30 p.m. last year. Have no fear, and good luck!

By: Jessie Carty

Jessie Carty — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:08:10 +0000

I’m joining in the craziness that is NaPoWriMo but it is already 3pm on the first day and not a line has met the page! But at least I have a rough idea of what I am going to do

Good luck to everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: didyousayhername

didyousayhername — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:30:03 +0000

I am sorry it has taken so long for me to comment — as you know, I was islanding this weekend (I never grow weary of using “island” as a verb). But I am late on the comment mostly because I cannot get past the most fabulous photo that mariegauthier wrote of a few posts above.

The two Nice Hat pomes are FABULOUS! Fabulous and FIERCE!

By: emmabolden

emmabolden — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:59:04 +0000

My dearest Ross, it is no problem at all. I have a map, and I not only have shoes, I have very fashionable high heels which I got a helluva deal on. I would love, love, love to see any of the poems you come up with this month over e-mail. And I’ll send you the link to my secret blog!

By: emmabolden

emmabolden — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:58:05 +0000

Hi Pamela! I’ll be posting some of the Nice Hat poems on my outreach blog: artofwritingprogram.wordpress.com. I’m excited to see what the kids came up with! I’m using this exercise as a (hopefully non-terrifying) way to introduce them to form. We’re slowly building to the biggies: we did Nice Hat-like couplets with six syllables (each student wrote five first lines, then switched with a partner and added second lines) per line this week. Next week, we’re going to have a renga party! Then, after that, either the pantoum or the villanelle — I haven’t decided. Eventually, we’re going to move to some light lessons on free verse line breaks. Very exciting!

By: emmabolden

emmabolden — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:54:55 +0000

mariegauthier — and believe me, the bangs do not look good when wet, muddy, and misty.

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:58:17 +0000

Oh, Emma.

I’ll try to keep up with you but I can promise I won’t make it every day. Can we do it by e-mail this time?