NaPoWriMo

April is National Poetry Month, and for those bloggers who like challenges, it's also National Poetry Writing Month, or NaPoWriMo:

April approacheth, and stalking in its shadow is NAPOWRIMO, that juggernaut of poetic output. Here's the deal: through the efforts of countless poets nationwide, National Poetry Month is transformed into National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), and thus from ugly duckling into Giant Robot Duckling That Destroys Cities through the Might of its Verse.

Those who accept the NaPoWriMo challenge must commit themselves to writing a poem every day for the entirety of April.

Maureen at SQUASH BLOSSOM!

I did this two years ago, and made a weak attempt last year. This year, I'm accepting the challenge, with modifications: I shall post a poem (new or old) or a poetry- related post every day in April. So speaketh the (moderately) ambitious blogging poet.

ReadWritePoem is also getting onboard, and Ivy has more buttons here. A board called Poetry Free For All is also playing -- this might be an option for non-bloggers. Poems will be blooming all over the web next month.

I'm moderating my ambition because I'll be taking a -- not unrelated -- class next month: Life Writing: Journal & Memoir, through the University's MOLLI program. I suspect this will incite poems, but I want to give myself permission to do other sorts of writing as well.