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Tag Archives: Maureen Thorson
Prompt Return
NaPoWriMo promises to return next April for this month dedicated to poets and their poetry and leaves us with the word return as our final prompt. Taking a chant I first heard sung by Libana and repeated afterwards in countless women’s … Continue reading
Posted in Archetypes, Community, goddess, Herstory, NaPoWriMo, Poetry, Ritual, Women
Tagged goddess, Libana, Maiden-Mother-Crone, Maureen Thorson, NaPoWriMo
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Small Pleasures
Today we write an ode to life’s small pleasures, continuing into our eighteenth day of a writing poem a day with NaPoWriMo encouragement. I’d like to say that it’s no small pleasure to discover the chapbooks to which we’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Gratitude, NaPoWriMo, Poetry
Tagged Guadalupe, Maureen Thorson, NaPoWriMo, small pleasures
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April 8 NapoWriMo on Twitter
Today Maureen shared several twitter accounts on the NaPoWriMo site. These offer bits and pieces of poetry by sundry famous and less-well known artists. She suggested choosing a line from one of these tweets and using it as one’s own … Continue reading
Rhyme Time
Maureen introduced us to RhymeZone today, a favorite place of mine, much easier to use than an old school rhyming dictionary and offering many more services like thesaurus, dictionary, near rhymes, related phrases and synonyms. It quick, pretty comprehensive and … Continue reading
Posted in Myth, NaPoWriMo, Nature, Nonsense, Poetry, Storytelling, Writing
Tagged hedge witch, Maureen Thorson, NaPoWriMo, RhymeZone, rhyming, wordplay
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April Brings NaPoWriMo
This is the month a spread my wings and fly away to poetry contests, to Lucidity in Arkansas and Poetry at Round Top in Texas. They couldn’t be more different or more cancelled. Luckily I have NaPoWriMo to fall back … Continue reading
Posted in NaPoWriMo, War, Writing
Tagged Books, d'Verse Poets Pub, Lucidity, Maureen Thorson, NaPoWriMo, Poetry at Roundtop, reading
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Unexpectedly Caught Up in Story
Okay, Maureen warned us that in undertaking this exercise we might be tumbled down unexpected pathways. The exercise was to find a poem in a language we didn’t know, pair it with a photograph and write our own poem inspired … Continue reading
Posted in NaPoWriMo, Poetry
Tagged Maureen Thorson, Max Temmerman, NaPoWriMo, Nicole Callihan, poetry, Samar Abdel Jaber, Stefan Serneels, Tom Liekens
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