Poetry Friday: Poetry Project Update, Progressive Poem, and a Poetry Celebration
Jone is hosting Poetry Friday this week. She has so much goodness this month, so be sure to check out her posts from all month long!
We Are Here Anthology
The U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón, just released an anthology that connects our National Parks and nature poetry. If you haven’t had a chance to watch the launch at the Library of Congress, here is the replay.
It’s a lovely celebration of poetry.
I’ve started reading the anthology YOU ARE HERE, and I’m loving it so far.
Ada Limón mentioned that the prompt for these poets was:
What would you write to the landscape around you?
If you want to share your poem, she says you can share it online at #youareherepoetry
Buckle up, Nevermores, I think this will be our prompt sometime soon! (Though, honestly, we write to this idea often.)
Poetry Month Project
I’m still pursuing my poem-a-day inspired by science for my poetry month project. I chose to do a trinet, inspired by Alan J. Wright’s post last week.
A trinet is 7 lines with 2 words per line, except for lines 3 & 4, which have 6 words each.
The Sneezes of a Sea Sponge
sea sponge’s
multiple mouths
slurp water and gobble floating goodies
soon it spews out as snot—
no nose
is needed
to sneeze
© 2024 draft by Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Progressive Poem Progression
Many Poetry Friday poets are contributing to the progressive poem all month long. I had the pleasure to add to the progressive poem this week.
Haiku of the Week
early blooms
magnolia spritzes pink
evening gowns
Photo Taken: March 16, 2024, Fairfax City
Haiku Written: March 20, 2024
Poem as Picture Book
by Lindsay H. Metcalf
Illustrated by Xin Li
Astra Young Readers, 2024
This 160-word text is a rhyming picture book that compares outdoor (traditional) farms and indoor farms.
Poetry Connections
- Rhyming
- Specific word choice
- Vivid Verbs
- Alliteration
Links
Grow
I have been writing a poem a day—even when it has been hard. Sitting down to write—much like exercise—is showing up. Once I sit down to write, I enjoy it (even when it’s hard). But I show up.
20 Comments
Rose Cappelli
You Are Here is going on my need to read list. I love the trinet you wrote. “No nose is needed to sneeze” made me laugh. Thanks, Marcie. Your posts are always full of wonder.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you! I do try to walk through the world full of wonder.
Linda Baie
Wow, do you really have magnolia blooms – love the ‘evening gowns’, Marcie. I know about sea sponges, fun to read your trinet, ha! “no nose needed/to sneeze”! And, thanks for sharing about the new anthology, so many this Poetry Friday are being shared – one more to love!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
I might have shouted about all of the magnolia trees in bloom as we drove through the neighborhood the other day. There was even an YELLOW one.
Denise Krebs
Marcie, your blog is so beautiful. I love the way you organize it with several ongoing and rotating mini series. Your evening gown metaphor for those beautiful flowers is perfect. I can’t wait to read this anthology with poems about natural spaces. Oooh. Sounds wonderful.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you so much! Sometimes it feels like a mishmash of all the stuff I’m interested in. 🙂 I’m glad someone else enjoys it.
Linda Mitchell
I’m not sure what type first…ewww or LOL. I guess I figured it out. Sea sponges sure are different! Thanks for writing about them. And, Limon’s prompt is fascinating. I’m not sure I’ve considered writing to a landscape before. I may need to give that a try.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Do give it a try! I will too!
PATRICIA J FRANZ
“gobble floating goodies” — I am rolliing on the floor about this – And I think about how, when I scuba dive, it’s floating all around me!
Lots of good stuff this week, Marcie! YOU ARE HERE (yep, the prompt is already in place!) and more Poems as PBs (you are such a resource!!). Thanks!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Yes, all that floaty stuff! It’s amazing any of us are alive.
Mary Lee
Most of the pink magnolias around here got nipped (third year in a row) by a freeze. Yours are gorgeous!
I can’t wait to dig into Ada Limon’s new collection!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Oh no to the freeze! I’ve seen purple, pink, white, and yellow this year. I have magnolia radar. 🙂
Heidi Mordhorst
“No nose is needed to sneeze”! This is only one nibble of goodness from your omnibus of goodness this week, Marcie. Somehow I missed YOU ARE HERE, so I’m off to grab that from the library!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you! And I hope you enjoy the anthology (and the reading from the LOC).
Sarah Grace Tuttle
Thank you for this poetry abundance! Your sea sponge poem is a hoot!
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Thank you so much!
Jone MacCulloch
Marcie,
Thank you for the new anthology and poetry prompt. I need to sit with a variety places I could write about. Going to see if our library has this book.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Oh yes! A variety of places to choose from–or multiple poems.
Karen Edmisten
Marcie, your trinet made me laugh, and the image of magnolia blooms as pink evening gowns is lovely.
Putting You Are Here on my wish list right away.
Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Yay! I hope you enjoy!