National Poetry Month — Second Week of Couplets

Here are the second week of entries for Couplets: a multi-author poetry blog tour.  Have things slowed down at all for anyone?  As you fill your days with poetry, I hope you’ll visit and read some of these as a part of your month of poetry.

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• 15 April 2012: get out of the way of writing the poem (Sue Goyette at Joanne Merriam)
• 15 April 2012: On Translation, by Carol Berg (at Sue Burke‘s Mount Orégano)
• 15 April 2012: Johannes Berg (at Angie Werren’s feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose))
• 14 April 2012: Contemporary American Women Poets: Kate Daniels and Jane Hirschfield (Anne Higgins at The Wordsmith’s Forge: The Writing & Other Projects of Elizabeth Barrette)
• 14 April 2012: Aubrie Cox (at Angie Werren’s feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose))
• 14 April 2012: Inquiring Minds and Other Clichés — John Amen (at Christine Klocek-Lim’s November Sky Poetry)
• 13 April 2012: Beginning with a Question (guest post by Lynn Domina) (at Kristine Ong Muslim)
• 13 April 2012: haiga: a powder brush (Peg Duthie at Joanne Merriam)
• 13 April 2012: Cara Holman (at Angie Werren’s feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose))
• 12 April 2012: Math or poetry — must one choose? (Eveline Pye at JoAnne Growney’s Intersections — Poetry with Mathematics)
• 12 April 2012: Ojibway Poet Heid Erdrich and the Craft of Writing (at Wendy Brown-Baez’s Wendy’s Muse)
• 12 April 2012: 3 Questions for Mary Alexandra Agner (at Miriam Sagan’s Miriam’s Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond)
• 12 April 2012: Couplets Blog Tour: “Why Getting Small Details Right Matters,” by Pat Valdata (at Celia Lisset Alvarez’s Writing with Celia)
• 12 April 2012: James Brush (at Angie Werren’s feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose))
• 12 April 2012: Featured “Couplets” Poet: Sue Burke (at Christina Nguyen’s A wish for the sky…)
• 12 April 2012: National Poetry Month: Guest Post #9, Andrea Grillo . . . (at Margaret Dornaus’ Haiku-doodle)
• 11 April 2012: GUEST BLOG & INTERVIEW – Heather Kamins – BLUESHIFTING (at Steve Vernon’s Old Fart Rambles)
• 11 April 2012: Interview with Steve Vernon (at Heather Kamins)
• 11 April 2012: Couplets Blog Tour: Pat Valdata’s Inherent Vice (at Celia Lisset Alvarez’s Writing with Celia)
• 11 April 2012: Inquiring Minds and Other Clichés — Karen J. Weyant (at Christine Klocek-Lim’s November Sky Poetry)
• 11 April 2012: Open My Mouth and Sky (Ching-In Chen at Mary Alexandra Agner)
• 11 April 2012: National Poetry Month: Guest Post #8, Pamela Cooper . . . (at Margaret Dornaus’ Haiku-doodle)
• 11 April 2012: there must be a lot of power in that quiet space for there to be an all-out onslaught against it in our culture (Jeff Hardin at Joanne Merriam).
• 11 April 2012: Marie Marshall (at Angie Werren’s feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose))
• 10 April 2012: Measured Extravagance by Peg Duthie (a review) (at Renee Emerson’s This Quiet Hour)
• 10 April 2012: guest post: poems by Christina Nguyen (at Peg Duthie’s zirconium)
• 10 April 2012: National Poetry Month: Guest Post #7, Claire Everett (at Margaret Dornaus’ Haiku-doodle)
• 10 April 2012: Kirsten Cliff (at Angie Werren’s feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose))
• 9 April 2012: Guest Post: Mary Alexandra Agner (at The Wordsmith’s Forge: The Writing & Other Projects of Elizabeth Barrette)
• 9 April 2012: National Poetry Month: Guest Post #6, Alegria Imperial . . . (at Margaret Dornaus’ Haiku-doodle)
• 9 April 2012: Inquiring Minds and Other Clichés — O.P.W. Fredericks (at Christine Klocek-Lim’s November Sky Poetry)
• 9 April 2012: Andrea Grillo (at Angie Werren’s feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose))
• 9 April 2012: it requires practice, a lot of it (Christine Klocek-Lim at Joanne Merriam
• 8 April 2012: Fiona Robyn (at Angie Werren’s feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose))
• 7 April 2012: A sestina (“Safety in Numbers”) — and variations (Harry Mathews at JoAnne Growney’s Intersections — Poetry with Mathematics)
• 7 April 2012: “Books teach me to attend to this world” — a guest post by Lynn Domina (at Heather Kamins: fiction, poetry, and other necessities)
• 7 April 2012: The poem itself should tell the reader the melody of itself by way of its combination of words. (Jericho Brown [autoplays music] at Joanne Merriam)
• 7 April 2012: Deb Scott (at Angie Werren’s feathers: micropoetry (and tinyprose))
• 7 April 2012: Introducing Community Activist/Poet/Playwright Bryan Thao Worra (at Wendy’s Muse [Wendy Brown-Baez])
• 7 April 2012: Inquiring Minds and Other Clichés — Ayesha Chatterjee (at Christine Klocek-Lim’s November Sky Poetry)