NaPoWriMo 2024 starts tomorrow and as a tradition since 2015, I will be joining the NaPo community writing and posting my poem-a-day on this blog and linking it to napowrimo.net. I used to post my April poems on my Blogger account, but I have discontinued its use, preferring the format on Wix.
How It Works
I use the prompt that NaPo posts each day to write a poem every day during the month of April. But I'm not too strict about using only NaPo. I find inspiration in a lot of different ways and will be using a poetry prompt generator I found on Instagram @poetrypromptgenerator as well.
I also try to attend Christopher Luna's online Zoom poetry workshop every Tuesday, which will help me write more poems this April. You can find more details on his Zoom workshop called The Work over here.
I sometimes use prompts from Poets & Writer's "The Time Is Now", a weekly set of prompts for poets, CNF writers, and fiction writers. You can have this delivered to your email if you sign up for the PW newsletter, or you can navigate to the prompt page here.
I also take inspiration from reading poetry from others. Last night, I finished Charif Shanahan's Trace Evidence. A collection of poems on race, identity, belonging, and gay love and desire. I found some wonderful poems throughout, and lines from Charif that are already circling around my head.
Ready, Set, Go
I've already begun my warmup before tomorrow April 1st and will be posting the result soon.
If you want to know a little bit more about NaPo, check out napowrimo.net and their about page. Never will you think about the month of April the same way again. Many of us poets prepare months in advance. It's a fun and challenging way to make poems and build a community, connecting poet to poet.
This is a global movement of people poeming together.
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