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alliyah wrote:

Please Claim Your NaPo Badges

There are many unfinished badge posts in the NaPo forum. :] Did you write 5 poems or make 5 comments or attend 5 poetry jams during April? Then you may be eligible for a NaPo badge! Log your activity and claim your badge here. It really helps if you tell us whether you think you earned Poem A Day / NaPo Completion etc too, and number your poems... somewhere in an index or on the poems themselves.

Please claim your NaPo Badges here as soon as you can, and let a Poetry Crew member know if you are still logging your comments / need more time. Thank you!

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i want you to take me back to the summers
where we burned the bottoms of our feet

in the distant future where we have found the cure for death
and “Death and Taxes” have been replaced as certainties
by “Committees and Art,” they will hold my bones as a worshipper
holds the bones of a saint.

The sky is never dark in the city.
Once,
we traced a world in the heavens
replete with queens, hunters and hounds
splashed
across a river of stars.
Tonight, all I have are aeroplanes.

spiderwebbing chasms in asphalt
that bloom from every salt-and-tire abbrasion,

lliyah wrote:What's that? Only 15 jam jars until NaPo!

And! Our NaPo Info Thread is up!



I am so excited for you all to see what the Poetry Crew has in store for you this April. And really really excited to read everyone's poetry too. (Did I mention I'm excited for NaPo yet?)

If you're not sure what NaPo is and this just seems like a lot of alphabet soup to you so far, we'll have a FAQ thread out soon, but for now I'd encourage you to read the Information Thread. Basically NaPo is a month of poetry fun starting April 1.

To participate in NaPo:

1) create a NaPo thread in the NaPo Forum for posting your poetry in April.
2) watch for the upcoming Badge / Contest Thread to read about our specific challenges you can participate in.
3) jump into poetry jams, contests, and activities all April long!

~ watch for more NaPo prep and brainstorming opportunities this March too (like the upcoming Poetry Reader's Session!!) ~ #countdowntonapo #bringbacknapo #napo2023

Seirre wrote:The official NaPo Badge Information thread is live! Click on the banner below to go to the thread. You'll find information on all the snazzy badges up for grabs this year, how to earn them, and how to claim them!

#napo2023 #CountDownToNaPo #NaPo

LadySpark wrote:

Buzz, Buzz, Buzz! It's time to brainstorm!

Are you ready for NaPo yet? ... We aren't either! To fix that, @LadySpark and @Seirre will be hosting a poetry brainstorm jam on *! Come join us and get a head start on your NaPo planting planning!


We'll see you there! Click this link on the 19th to join us!

*date and time automatically adjusts to your timezone!

lliyah wrote:

30 Jam Jars Away

Friends. We are only 30 Jam Jars away from NaPo! Watch out for some poetry hype from Poetry Crew this month because our poetry enthusiasm can not be contained!

As you start getting your jam recipes, themes, and poetry inspo in a basket to get you through April - here's some threads you might love to check out!

haiku train (write a haiku using the last line the last person wrote as your first line!)

Write the Worst Poem you can. Dismiss your inner editor and write the worst poem you can to get that creativity flowing!

Lean into some poetry discussions and ask the "why" and "how" about your poetry -> What's your motivation & How do you revise?

and finally ... I commend to you YWS Statuses that could work as a NaPo Thread Title watch the people tab and look for potential napo titles -> can we find one every day until napo? Help us look!

lliyah wrote:Has anyone seen any jam jars around here?

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Spoiler! :

Wait a second... I don't know what NaPo is!

NaPo is short for "National Poetry Writing Month" which happens around the world every April. On YWS we celebrate it by emphasizing all things poetry. The "traditional challenge" is to try to write 30 poems during April, one poem every day of the month and post it in the NaPo Forums. However you can participate at any level, meaning you can still join in the fun even if your goal is closer to 10 or 15 poems! Watch for more information, activities, and challenges as we get closer to April.