Every year I participate in the Poem A Day Challenge at Poetic Asides, a section of Writer's Digest. (Some aspects of National Poetry Month in the USA spread to other countries.) It involves me in lots of late nights and first drafts, and every year I think I'd be insane to take it on, but every year (so far) I do ( Read more... )

For those who have been following along, elsewhere in the blogosphere -

Everyone who took part in the April Poem A Day Challenge this month is eligible to have a selection of their work considered for the Top 50 poems.  As we are required to self-select, my friend Jennie Fraine and I are going to help each other decide on our best pieces.  If any of ( Read more... )

Gone mad! Decided to do not only NaPoWriMo this month but also the April Poem A Day challenge at Poetic Asides (same deal, write a poem a day, this time to specific prompts) - regardless of First Stepson and three grand-daughters arriving tomorrow to stay a few days, and regardless of making public a whole 60 first drafts.

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Is at Poetic Asides.

I'm participating. NaNoWriMo for poets, lol.  Don't expect me to be active nor even very present here for the month!

Find my poems among hundreds of others (many marvellous!) at Poetic Asides, or on my blog The Passionate Crone - or join my Google group of Rosemary's Readers to have them float into your personal inbox as ( Read more... )