2014 April PAD Challenge: Day 30
Ack! Today is the final day of the challenge! For people catching up, I’m giving a 5-day buffer between each day’s prompt–so the cut-off will be 11:59 p.m. on May…
Ack! Today is the final day of the challenge! For people catching up, I'm giving a 5-day buffer between each day's prompt--so the cut-off will be 11:59 p.m. on May 5 (Atlanta, GA time). Also, I'm going to post on "Next Steps" regarding this challenge tomorrow afternoon that will outline what to expect as far as judging, results, etc.
For today's prompt, write a "calling it a day" poem. Some people might call this "Miller time," others may refer to it as "closing time." Just remember: Don't call it a day until you put it in a poem.
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Get the National Poetry Month Kit!
Yes, this has been another great National Poetry Month, and here’s a great kit to celebrate: The Writer’s Digest National Poetry Month Kit, which includes a digital version of The Poetry Dictionary, a couple paperbacks (Creating Poetry and Writing the Life Poetic), a tutorial on building an audience for your poetry, the 2014 Poet’s Market, and more!
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Here's my attempt at a Calling It a Day poem:
"fyi"
i love you
have always loved you
lol
i'm tired of this cat & mouse
this cleaning house
omg
if you knew
what i wanted to do
rotfl
& other stuff
well
fml
w/o you in it
no other way to say
i <3 u
& i'm done cleaning house
be the cat
i'm your mouse
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Today's guest judge is...
Jillian Weise
Jillian is the author of The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, the novel The Colony,and The Book of Goodbyes, which won the 2013 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her work has appeared in Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, The New York Times and Tin House.
After fellowships from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the Fine Arts Work Center and the Fulbright Program, she joined the faculty at Clemson University.
She identifies as a cyborg.
Learn more here: https://www.boaeditions.org/bookstore/the-book-of-goodbyes.html
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Poem Your Heart Out
Poems, Prompts & Room to Add Your Own for the 2014 April PAD Challenge!
Words Dance Publishing is offering 20% off pre-orders for the Poem Your Heart Out anthology until May 1st! If you’d like to learn a bit more about our vision for the book, when it will be published, among other details.
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Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Content Editor of the Writer’s Digest Writing Community and author of Solving the World’s Problems. His favorite Marquez story is “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” though he also loves the short novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Learn more about Robert here: http://www.robertleebrewer.com/.
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Don't call it a day without reading these posts:
Robert Lee Brewer is Senior Editor of Writer's Digest, which includes managing the content on WritersDigest.com and programming virtual conferences. He's the author of 40 Plot Twist Prompts for Writers: Writing Ideas for Bending Stories in New Directions, The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms: 100+ Poetic Form Definitions and Examples for Poets, Poem-a-Day: 365 Poetry Writing Prompts for a Year of Poeming, and more. Also, he's the editor of Writer's Market, Poet's Market, and Guide to Literary Agents. Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
