3 Day Countdown and more Craft Resources.
Mark Strand
Our craft resource for the day is an essay by the poet Mark Strand (scroll down to “from ‘Notes on the Craft of Poetry’”). Strand advocates for a bit of the mystical and the personal in poetry. While he doesn’t deny that there is a “way of doing” poetry, he believes that the way is unique to each poet, and must be discovered through practice.
http://www.napowrimo.net/three-days-until-na-glopowrimo/
2 Day Countdown
Jim Holt
another craft resource for your perusal. In his essay, Got Poetry?, Jim Holt discusses the practice of memorizing poetry. I memorized a lot of poetry as a child, and have found it wonderful not just for entertaining myself at bus stops (we didn’t always have iPhones), but because it creates a sort of mental index of the sounds of poetry — rhythms and beats and ways of expression that I can consult when writing without having to stop and go look something up.
http://www.napowrimo.net/two-days-to-go-3/
1 Day to Go and a BONUS Earlybird Prompt
Our craft resource today is a short article featuring fifteen poets’ thoughts on revision. While our focus during Na/GloPoWriMo is on first drafts, revision is a big part of the poetic process, and one that everyone struggles with. Hopefully, this will give you food for thought and inspiration as you tackle editing your work.
Today’s prompt is one we’ve used before, but it gets great results, and who can argue with results? So today I’d like to challenge you to write a poem in the form of a love letter . . . to an object.
Find out more about this prompt by visiting the site here.
http://www.napowrimo.net/one-day-to-go-and-an-early-bird-prompt-2/
NaPoWriMo 2018 Here We Come!
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