I tried to reblog this video the other night, but for some reason the video wouldn’t play so I had to delete it. When I went back to find it again, I lost track of what blog I had found it on in the first place, so I don’t know if the technical problem ever…
Tag: napowrimo
Happy National Poetry Month, 2014
So, here we are, done with day one of April, 2014. No foolin! And for the first time in years I do not have myself committed to a National Poetry Month Challenge. In years past I attempted the NaPoWriMo gig of writing a poem each day. I ended up with a lot of great starts,…
PePoWriMo – Attempted Comeback from NaPoWriMo Fail
My explanation on Youtube for why I never got passed April 11th for this year’s Poem-a-Day (NaPoWriMo) challenge for National Poetry Month. Ah well, my mom had a saying for when I didn’t eat everything on my plate. She said my eyes were bigger than my stomach. Ah well, at least the grades were good…
Napowrimo, Days 10 and 11 – Ketchup Rhymes with…
Dear Jaime, You know I love you. I do. I know that my style of poetry is not your thing, and I understand that you are more comfortable with old school rhyme and meter. But please understand that when you say that you don’t get what I write and that you want me to write…
Napowrimo, Day 9 – Reconfiguration
I was discussing with someone last night how you might read something and think, yes, it is presented in lines, perhaps has a working metaphor; it might even be rhymed and metered. But in the end you think, “That wasn’t a poem.” I think this is a topic I’d like us to chat about in…
Napowrimo Day 6, Pocahontas
Today’s poem is another response to a prompt from Richard at Poetic Asides. This prompt was to write and ekphrastic poem. John Drury’s Poetry Dictionary, defines ekphrastic poetry as “Poetry that imitates, describes, critiques, dramatizes, reflects upon, or otherwise responds to a work of nonliterary art, especially the visual.” Of the two works provided (I…
David J. Bauman 