2015 April PAD Challenge: Day 30
Today is always the most bittersweet day of the challenge. Sweet because we’ve made it through 30 days! Bitter because it’s day 30–the final day of the challenge. Tomorrow, I’ll…
Today is always the most bittersweet day of the challenge. Sweet because we've made it through 30 days! Bitter because it's day 30--the final day of the challenge. Tomorrow, I'll share a next steps post on what to expect as far as results and such. Also, just a heads up that I'll be busy hanging out with my mom the next few days--so you can play catch up on many of the final prompts through May 4.
For today's prompt, take the phrase "Bury the (blank)," replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Some possible titles include: "Bury the Hatchet," "Bury the Body," "Bury the Past," "Bury the Hate," and "Bury the Acorns."
Good luck, and thank you so much for another fun and rewarding challenge!
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Get the National Poetry Month Collection!
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This super-sized kit includes 4 e-books, 3 paperback books, 7 tutorials, and much more! In fact, this kit covers everything from prompts to poetic forms and from revising poems to getting them published.
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Here's my attempt at a Bury the Blank Poem:
"bury the dishwasher"
in the back yard
or fill it
one last time
with flowers
instead of dishes
because if
it's not one part
broken
it's another
& maybe it's time
to return to
doing things
by hand
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Today's guest judge is...
Jessie Carty
Jessie Carty is the author of seven poetry collections, which include her newest full-length collection Practicing Disaster by Aldrich Press.
Other collections by Jessie Carty include Paper House, Fat Girl, and Morph.
Jessie is a freelance writer, teacher, and editor. Plus, she's one of the nicest poets you'll ever meet.
She can be found around the web, especially at http://jessiecarty.tumblr.com.
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Poem Your Heart Out again!
The prompts from last year’s challenge along with the winning poem from each day ended up in an inspired little anthology titled Poem Your Heart Out. It was part prompt book, part poetry anthology, and part workbook, because each day includes a few pages for you to make your own contributions.
Anyway, the anthology worked out so well that we’re doing it again this year, and you can take advantage of a 20% discount from Words Dance by pre-ordering before May 1, 2015.
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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.
Follow him on Twitter @robertleebrewer.
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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.
