Some Results of National Poetry Month

Savvy Verse and Wit again published some interesting blog posts during their April National Poetry Month blog tour. Here are some of the highlights:

April 12

View the entire schedule

• April 12:  Neruda's Book of Questions
• April 14: Interview with Chrissy Kolaya of the book of poems Any Anxious Body
• April 16: Review of Controlled Hallucinations by John Sibley Williams
• April 17: Essay on T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland"
• April 20: More T.S. Eliot goodness
• April 23: Review of the book of war poems Here, Bullet

I finished my second year of NaPoWriMo with a series of "30 Poems About Language" that should be retitled "30 Poems About Languageers"'

Meet a fellow NaPoWriMo distance runner this year and found 5-6 new followers, which is saying something since these poems were pretty experimental and/or didactic. The poem "It Takes 2 to B Happy" was the only trending poem this year. Half of them received likes.  Monsieur Big Bang liked two that no one else liked interestingly. Most of the poems incorporate a few famous aphorisms.

Here are the poems:

1. Tea 
2. Threatening to Write 
3. The Treachery of Meaning 
4. Sonnet Made of Cottonwood 
5. Chinese Medicine 
6. Rome 
7. Wearing a Welcome 
8. It's Not What You Say; It's How You Mark it Up 
9. Self Portrait 
10. “Writers” 
11. Who Says? 
12. A Didactic 
13. Before the Spell 
14. Stealing Labor 
15. Midway 
16. Caves 
17. Expressing Ownership 
18. The Proverbial Porch 
19. The Bosque 
20. The Plastic Egg 
21. She Was Offended by the Day of the Dead 
22. Through Us 
23. Every Bird 
24. Barking Dogs Seldom Bite 
25. Let Them Have Their Say 
26. To Know 
27. Live and Let Learn
28. It Takes 2 to B Happy 
29. Honor Among Thieves
30. Man Can't Live By Poems Alone 
31. An unpublished coda about Thomas Adorno

All my NaPoWriMo poems since 2013 can be found here: http://hellopoetry.com/mary-mccray/