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Day Twenty Eight-NaPoWriMo - Let it Roll On - A Poem Inspired by Chenda Melam
NaPoWriMo: today's prompt (optional, as always). Music features heavily in human rituals and celebrations. We play music at parties; we play it in parades, and at weddings. In her poem, OBIT [Music], Victoria Chang describes the role that music played in her mother's funeral. Today, we challenge you...
Posted on 28 April 2025 | 9:40 pm
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Day Twenty Seven-NaPoWriMo-Inheritance
NaPoWriMo: today's optional prompt. W.H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" takes its inspiration from a very particular painting: Breughel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus." Today we'd like to challenge you to write your own poem that describes a detail in a painting, and that begins, like Auden's...
Posted on 27 April 2025 | 10:30 pm
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Day Twenty Five - NaPoWriMo - The Handpan
NaPoWriMo: Today we'd like to challenge you to write a poem that recounts an experience of your own in hearing live music, and tells how it moves you. It could be a Rolling Stones concert, your little sister's middle school musical, or just someone whistling - it just needs to be something meaningfu...
Posted on 25 April 2025 | 9:39 pm
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