People are sharing stories in a way I haven’t felt in the Northern Berkshires in a long time — not since Inkberry held writing workshops and readings in a storefront in North Adams …
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Pop Up Poets bring the word to the streets
Poetry on a park bench? I once talked with three New York poets at once from my phone on Spring Street, and it seemed right, because that’s the way they perform their work. As National Poetry Month picks up momentum, here are the Pop Up Poets telling me how poems […]
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Poetry Month Day 9
Well, I’ve made it for a week or so into National Poetry Month, following their challenge along with WordxWord and adapting when their ideas don’t quite fit.
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Poetry Month Day 7
It’s National Poetry Month, and WordxWord is rolling through their own daily challenges and invites the world to join them.
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Poetry Month Day 6
As NaPoWriMo leads a national challenge, around here WordxWord gives their own daily challenges and invites all comers …
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Why read poetry?
When someone puts into words a way I have been feeling, the world feels open and understandable — like walking with someone I love and seeing for the first time the way the late light hits the old wooden siloes by the railroad tracks.
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Poetry Month Day 5
A prompt feels like an invitation to explore something, like a tasting for the mind. It’s National Poetry Month, with its poem-a-day challenges …
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Poetry month Day 4
It’s a busy time, even this early in spring, as summer starts to stir … but right now it’s National Poetry Month, with its poem-a-day challenges, and I’m following as long as I can.
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WordxWord’s third prompt for its 30/30 poetry challenge, a poem a day for 30 days, is “trail mix” — and that took me unexpectedly to memories of my days … or nights … in the newsroom.
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National Poetry Month begins
In the Berkshires. WordxWord has kicked off its 30/30 poetry challenge — through Facebook this year — and NaPoWriMo has begun.
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