Again this year, Kelli Russell Agodon is spearheading the Big Poetry Giveaway for National Poetry Month. It works like this:
Basically, bloggers give away 2 books of poem at the end of April. The first can be your own book, and the second is to be a FAVORITE book of poems of your choosing.
People will come to your blog and leave a comment saying they’d like to win your book and at the end of the month, you randomly choose two winners and mail them out the books
I will be participating again this year. The books I offer are my own, Weaving a New Eden, fresh off the press from Wind Publications
and Joanie DiMartino’s Strange Girls, published in 2010 by Little Red Tree Press. Here is my previous post about Strange Girls. Or you can catch up with Joanie at her Facebook page.
To be eligible for this giveaway, just leave a comment to this post. On May 1, I will pick two winners using this Random Number Generator. One winner will receive Weaving a New Eden and the other will receive a copy of Strange Girls.
(If you should happen already to own a copy of Weaving a New Eden, mention it in the comment and I’ll just include your name in the drawing for Strange Girls.)
You can find a master list of participants on the sidebar at The Book of Kells and Cati Porter, editor of poemeleon, has posted a list of contributors who are participating. Go and sign up for as many as you’d like.
I’ll leave a copy of the icon prominently displayed so people can find this post.
The Book of Kells also offers prompts for Poetry Month, not one a day but 30 to choose from. The poem below was written from prompt # 4: Take a poem you’ve written but never liked and circle the best words from that poem. Have those words end the lines in a new poem you will write.
The result is a bit silly but also a bit sonnet. It was a fun exercise.
April 3I shall affect a Bogart-style fedora
let a butt hang from my lip, grimace
with a certain menace. I may be punched
or beat but I will never be punch-drunk.
I’ll take my whiskey, do my shooting straight.I shall go walk across the back pasture,
no boys, no horses now to dog my crossing,
only an April sky streaked with mare’s tails.
Even the cows’ worn path, meandering loop
from shady oak to barn, has faded to a grassy blur.I’ll stand by the line fence and mark the contrail
of a west-flying jet, calculate before continuing
my rounds, how long till it lands in that city
of Angels where streets are mean but skies are cloudless.— Sherry Chandler
On April 3, 2006, I posted about William Littell, whose Festoons of Fancy was published in 1814. You can revisit that post at the link.
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I quite enjoyed your sonnet; the subject & the skies.
Add me also.
Please count me in. Thanks,Nandini
Thanks, Deb. I liked being Bogart for 5 lines.
Please enter my name in the drawing. My want for books exceeds my funds right now!
Oh, please count me in, too!
Feel free to stop by my blog for another chance to win.
sandylonghorn dot blogspot dot com
I’d like to be entered! Pick me!
Please add me to your giveaway. Thanks!
Please add me to your list for the giveaway! (I am participating, too.)
Ren
Count me in !
Please count me in, and thank you for doing this! (eldritch1313 at yahoo dot com)
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Please add me to your contest. You can contact me through the provided email address or by posting on or entering my contest on my blog (address above). And thank you for participating in the contest and spreading the words of poetry.
O.P.W. Fredericks
Would love to be a part of this drawing! I’ve got a giveaway going at my blog, too!
http://tawnyshagreene.blogspot.com/2011/04/big-poetry-giveaway.html
please enter me, i’d love to win!
thisquiethourATgmailDOTcom
I’d love to get in on this! Happy National Poetry Month!
Ma’am,
please include me. Thank you.
Paul David Adkins
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Please count me in! My email is KJWeyant@gmail.com
Thanks!
i would love to join please let me
great a poetry giveaway
let me join this one
Hi Sherry, Happy National Poetry Month. It’s a pleasure to meet you. Thank you for offering up such wonderful works – I loved the samples I read from both your work and Joanie’s. I would love to be included in your giveaway! Sincerely, Theresa (theresamacnaughtonatgmaildotcom)
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Thank you for doing this. I would love to be entered. Email: margoroby [at] gmail.com
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I should like to take a chance!
Some great samples.
http://russellevatt.blogspot.com/ is my poetry and performance blog.
I want to be a winner!
russell.evatt (at) gmail (dot) com
Hey,
both these books sound (and look) a great read to me. I will be very happy to hold either of them.
Happy you have joined my giveaway.
Blessings,
D!
I like how horses lead into mares tails in the sky, and the last two lines. Please enter me in your giveaway — thanks for being willing to share!
I have a poetry giveaway over at my blog as well!
Thank you Valerie. It’s been a long month, I’d almost forgotten this poem.
Hey – you can’t score if you don’t shoot! How ’bout that for a “Kentucky-ism”? Count me in.
Mary Jo
I’d love to have a go at your new book Sherry.
want to participate in the Poetry Giveaway- hope i win the wonderful books!
A.
luckywow1@yahoo.com
I’d love to win!
danicagrunertATyahooDOTca
Sign me up! And come check out our giveaway at http://www.redlionsq.com.
amy@redlionsq.com
Sherry – Count me in! And come on over to my place if you want to enter my giveaway. It’s at Rocket Kids. Thanks to Kel’s great idea, this thing is really going viral!
Woohoo giveaway! Thanks for doing this.
Ok, piling on. But I won’t feel sad for losing. I have enough income now that I should be purchasing these books. The real benefit to me for “give-aways” online is information about buying these. Although not this month. Or likely next. There’s an old oak threatening our roof. Also shielding it. Confusing? Well, to us. Nature just is.
Thanks Sherry for being a poet in my life! [And please add me to the giveaway list]
Please add me to the drawing! Thanks
Would it be considered favoritism if I won???
Please add me to the list. Thank you.
I’d very much like to win either book. *pokes around at the random number generator, looking for a trick*