April fast approacheth, y'all, and that means it's time, once again, for NaPoWriMo, otherwise known as National Poetry Writing Month. I began oberving this sacred project four years ago, determining to write a poem every day for the entire month of April. That first year was one of random poems. The second year I wrote poems for my "Calamity" series. Last year, the third year, I wrote poems based on the titles of works found in that paragon of mediocre taste, "The Best Loved Poems of the American People." And this year?
This year, I'm going for broke. Two poems a day. Yowzers! One "Applies to Oranges" poem every day, and one poem for a project currently going by the title of "Wonder Clock."
And what's your place in all this? Well, you can join me. One poem a day, two a day, three a day if you've got the stomach. Test your poetic mettle against the horrible regularity of the turn of time. Let me know if you'll be participating, and your name will live in glory in the "NaPoWriMo" section of my sidebar.
And as a special incentive . . . Big Game will be publishing a tiny collection of NaPoWriMo poems, one for each day, suitable for framing (okay, not unless you don't want to be able to read the poems in the book). Join my monkey robot poem army, and you just might find yourself represented.
So don't delay. Get on the NaPoWriMo bandwagon and earn your versical stripes. Drop me a line at reenhead-at-gmail-dot-com to join the merry crew . . .
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