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Pause with Poetry for National Poetry Month
As National Poetry Month approaches in April, I'm so excited to share my latest offering:
Pause with Poetry for National Poetry Month
From Challenge to Pause
​Earlier this year, I had the idea of offering a free "Poetry Challenge" for National Poetry Month in April.
At the time, the familiar language of "challenge" felt exciting and full of possibility to me. Now? Who needs another challenge? Not me, that's for sure! Still, for many of us, it's a good time to PAUSE. The perfect time for POETRY. With that reframe in mind, I'd like to invite you to sign up for Pause with Poetry. If you sign up now, each day in April you'll receive an email that includes a link to a poem for reading and four prompts to inspire your writing -- if you're so moved to write during this time. No challenge. No pressure. Just daily reminders to take a PAUSE. To read or write a POEM. If you sign up by 3/31/20, you'll receive the first email on Wednesday, April 1, 2020.
Each email includes:
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​Need a late start? If you didn't get a chance to sign up by 3/31/20, no worries! Sign up now and you'll get the first of 30 daily challenge emails in your inbox right away:
Pause with Poetry's Featured Poets:
Li Yun Alvarado Michele Tracy Berger Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo Cindy Lynn Brown Julia de Burgos Lucille Clifton Lizz dm Florival Cybele Garcia Kohel Karen George Leah Griesmann Jessica Guzman Joy Harjo Penny Harter Ashaki M. Jackson Jen Karetnick Tanya Ko Hong Cynthia Manick MarÃa Meléndez Jasminne Mendez Jenise Miller Pedro Pietri Rosie ProhÃas Driscoll Dimitri Reyes Barbara Jane Reyes Angelina Sáenz Patricia Smith Edwin Torres Wendy Van Camp Sherre Vernon Emilee Wirshing P.S. May I Spotlight Your Work?
Many of the poems in Pause with Poetry were written by poets in my community.
I plan to continue spotlighting writers throughout the year. Do you have any work I can spotlight? If you have a poem, short story, or personal essay published online that you would like to have considered for spotlighting, click here to read submission guidelines, subscribe, and submit your work. P.P.S. Sneak Peek
Watch the video below for a behind the scenes look at how I'm delivering the 30 emails to your inbox without getting totally overwhelmed.
​Click here for the links to the resources I mention in the video.
2 Comments
Michelle
4/2/2020 03:26:53 pm
I wrote a poem today! A villanelle, in fact. Would love to share part of it, if I may. Please let me know how/where. Thank you!
Oh how exciting! Feel free to share here in the comments if you'd like or feel free to share your favorite line(s) with me on social media. Congrats again on getting some writing done! Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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