This month I will be featuring a lot more poetry news since it’s National Poetry Month.

Favorite Tweets:

Favorite Search Terms:

• sylvia plath – spinster:  She never made it to spinsterhood.  Unfortunately she used the oven as a cubby hole and had children.
• roald dahl font: He has his own font?  I’m totally intrigued.
• blue poetry: Is this poetry of sorrow, or poetry of sky?
• bowel movement in a bookstore: No wonder you got my blog.

Book News:

•  Revolution House is out with Issue 2.1
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  Inspiration Station

  Prompts and Exercises from Poets & Writers. Everyone needs a little push once in a while.

• Asheville Wordfest is fundraising on kickstarter.  It’s May 4th and 5th: spoken word poetry and poetry discussion. Amelia, you better be going to this for me since I can’t attend. 
• Verse Daily Poem of the Day by Mary Ruefle.
• If you have a teen girl in NYC who loves to write, apply for Girls Write Now!
• More men published in literary journals @ The Atlantic.  Good thing  less than half the population owns a penis.
• Join Poem-A-Day @ Poets.org for National Poetry Month.
• Pig Song by Margaret Atwood.  Many of you probably like her speculative fiction, but did you know she writes damn good poetry as well.
• American Book Review 100 Best Lines
• Fourteen-year-old is two times published (by parents) @ NY Times.
• Anne Patchett is nominated for Times Most Influential List, but can she beat Beyonce?  Does she make you want to put a ring on it?
• “The Subject is Silence” by poet Li-Young Lee @ Poetry Daily
• For teachers (or bookish nerds like me) Steel Cage Poem Death Match @ Poetry Foundation
• Harper Lee: Hey, Boo @ PBS.org (YES, DOCUMENTARIES).
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  Mark Powell envelopes

  On Beauty by Zadie Smith probably coming to the big screen.  What books would you like to see turned into movies? I want Summer Sisters by Judy Blume.

• Would The Marriage Plot have been as successful if written by a woman@ Sunday Book Review – NY Times.
  • “Or would this novel (which I loved) have been relegated to “Women’s Fiction,” that close-quartered lower shelf where books emphasizing relationships and the interior lives of women are often relegated?”  (teaser).
• Pulitzer Prize Winner Gene Weingarten shares his thoughts on writing in this interview @ Writer’s Digest.
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  Virginia Woolf's Bedroom

  15 Literary Bedrooms @ thekitchn

• David Shields of Creative Nonfiction – Required Reading.
• Harry Crews dies at 76. Iconic Southern Writer.
• How many creative outlets do you have?  Why creative people need many outlets.
• Twelve Great Small Presses @ Flavorwire.
• Word for Word @ Lapham’s Quarterly.
• Remembrances of Poet, Adrienne Rich @ Poetry Foundation.
• Dear Cheryl: A Wild Night with Sugar and the Rumpus @ The Outlet.
• Harry Crews @ The New York Times
• Ridiculously awesome envelopes @ The Colossal by Mark Powell.