Monday, March 31, 2014

National Poetry Month 2014

Welcome back, Dear Readers, to Math Awareness Month and the fifth annual incarnation of this poetry blog.

This year, I'm getting back to basics: for the next thirty days I will write and post a new poem determined by the following randomizing system: I have a deck of playing cards and a twenty sided die. Each card is assigned a prompt and each side a form. In the morning I will draw a card and roll the die, and then, using the randomly selected topic and form, write and post the poem here before I go to sleep.

The list of prompts is as follows:


2c Minimum Wage
2d Gong Farming
2h Small Victories
2s Palate Cleansers
3c Blurred Lines
3d Slow Television
3h School Photos
3s Spirit Animals
4c Heroin Chic
4d Stars Without Makeup
4h Stage Kisses
4s Cold Feet
5c Easter Island
5d Flightless Birds
5h Constellations
5s Koala Attacks
6c Armchair Quarterbacks
6d Armchair Suicides
6h Dead Grandfathers
6s The War on Christmas
7c Bloodless Coups
7d Sleeper Cells
7h Strategic Losses
7s Pyrrhic Victories
8c Saffron
8d Lotus Eaters
8h William Blake References
8s Circular Logic
9c Reality TV Villains
9d Horrible Bosses
9h The Westboro Baptist Church
9s Tea Parties
10c Bay State Road
10d The Western Wall
10h Espresso Royale Caffe (sic)
10s The Moana Surfrider Hotel
jc Catharism
jd Second Chances
jh Errant Knights
js Being Older than James Dean
qc Miscarriages
qd Amelia Earhart
qh Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe
qs Killing Two Birds With One Stone
kc Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain *
kd Elvis Impersonators
kh Henry IV Part 1
ks Divine Right
ac Survivor Guilt
ad Unfinished Screenplays
ah Failed Actors
as Poetry Blogs



And forms:

1 Prose
2 Shakesperian Sonnet
3 Tweet Length
4 Rubai
5 Writer's Choice
6 Limerick
7 Folk Song
8 Free Verse
9 Haiku
10 Acrostic
11 Tweet Length
12 Blank Verse
13 Hip Hopera (detail)
14 Writer's Choice
15 Free Verse
16 Tanka
17 Rondeau
18 Tweet Length
19 Alexandrine Couplets
20 Writer's Choice




Ground Rules:

- I will follow the system every day even if it means I have to write a Haiku about 'Blurred Lines'.

- Once a topic is used, it will not be put back in the deck.

- Jokers are wild (explanations to come)


Check out previous years here:


2010
2011
2012
2013



Enjoy and thanks for reading!


* To commemorate Confederate History Month

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