NaPoWriMo Prompt: Day 2
To add something more entertaining to the 30-day poetry challenge, we will be delivering challenges based on the alphabet (along with four additional challenges, one of which was yesterday’s “Introduction” prompt). For “A,” the prompt is “Ars Poetica.” Ever since Horace wrote his “Ars Poetica,” about the art of poetry, poets have been writing their own such poems, sharing their philosophy of writing poetry. If you like, imitate Horace’s form and write it as an epistle in hexameter. Or write it in any form that best suits what you...
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April is National Poetry Month, and many poets are challenging themselves to write a poem a day. Wild Violet will once again be suggesting daily prompts for poets to follow. You can find additional prompts at the official NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) site. Our first prompt is an Introduction poem: Write a poem that introduces the reader to you, your neighborhood, a family member, or a concept, et cetera. Free free to share your poem (or a link to your poem) in the comments below. Keep in mind that poems appearing in the comments are not considered published in Wild...
Read MoreLook for More Content Soon
Editor Alyce Wilson had to take a brief pause in the production of Wild Violet in order to deliver on some other projects. Look for us to return soon with featured pieces on Women and then Love, just in this for Valentine’s Day!
Read MoreBack from an Attack
Some of our regular readers might have noticed that Wild Violet went dark for a period last week. We were dealing with problems caused by a higher than usual influx of spam comments, causing our hosting company to shut us down for our CPU usage. However, we believe we have now fixed the problem now and will be publishing a slightly bigger than usual selection of works this week, as a result. Thanks for sticking with us!
Read MoreWeekly Schedule Resuming
Regular readers of Wild Violet can’t have helped noticing we’ve had a gap in our content, due to other real-life commitments of the editor, Alyce Wilson. However, starting this week we are resuming the weekly publishing schedule and hope to catch up soon with all the backed up correspondence and submissions. Thank you all for your patience and please get the word out that we are rebooting the weekly format!
Read MoreNaPoWriMo Prompt – Day 30 (Epilogue)
30-06-09 by Roz Vincent, on Flickr Has April been a good month for your poetry writing? Even if you didn’t meet the NaPoWriMo challenge (30 poems in 30 days), did you write at least one poem you wouldn’t have written otherwise? Today’s prompt asks you to reflect: Write an epilogue poem, or a poem that adds insight to events that have happened, reflects on meaning and looks forward to the future. For inspiration, read Robert Lowell’s “Epilogue,” Robert Browning’s “Epilogue,” and Ezra Pound’s “Epilogue.” If you like...
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