NaPoWriMo 2014!
Cross-posted from napowrimo.net Get set . . . On March 31, 2014 Tomorrow is the first day of NaPoWrimo. I hope you are feeling excited and inspired. Today’s poetry resource is the Big Poetry Giveaway . Now in its fifth year, the Giveaway celebrates National Poetry Month by giving participants the opportunity to get books of poetry, for free! I know that by the time I post the first “official” prompt, it will already have been April 1 for a while in some parts of the world, so here is an extra little prompt (totally optional — as all our prompts are) for those of you who are experiencing NaPoWriMo earlier than me. The prompt for all you early birds is an ekphrastic poem – a poem inspired by or about a work of art. There’s no rules on the form for an ekphrastic poem, so you could write a sonnet or a haiku or free verse. Some well-known ekphrastic poems include Rilke’s Archaic Torso of Apollo and Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn . But ekphrastic poetry is alive and well today, too...
