Pesbo Pearl Pirie's Poetry Journal (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} pearlformance) wrote,@ 2009-04-09 10:10:00 |
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Draw Inspiration where you may
Poetic Aside daily challenges can be broad (a memory, an animal), but then, it's never the idea that's valuable or unique, it's the implementation. The official NaPoWriMo (National Poem Writing Month) prompts for the U.S. are also rather open ended (write about paradise, or nicknames) but Joanne Merriam is setting a different bent with the lists she's running. Her normal blogging practice is to pull out quotes from books daily, but now she's posting links to poems to inspire a response, such as “Political Meeting” by A. M. Klein to “The Language” by Robert Creeley and “They are hostile nations” by Margaret Atwood. I'm a sucker for specificity.
Poetic Aside daily challenges can be broad (a memory, an animal), but then, it's never the idea that's valuable or unique, it's the implementation. The official NaPoWriMo (National Poem Writing Month) prompts for the U.S. are also rather open ended (write about paradise, or nicknames) but Joanne Merriam is setting a different bent with the lists she's running. Her normal blogging practice is to pull out quotes from books daily, but now she's posting links to poems to inspire a response, such as “Political Meeting” by A. M. Klein to “The Language” by Robert Creeley and “They are hostile nations” by Margaret Atwood. I'm a sucker for specificity.
