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Call for Poetry Book Donations & Looking for Tour Hosts

by Serena on February 12, 2012

National Poetry Month 2012 is nearly upon us, with less than two months to go. I’ve got a few great bloggers willing to talk about poetry and to host reviews and guest posts in April, but I’ve still got some open spots on the schedule. Won’t you help me fill them in?

I’ve got a few guest posts coming in from poets that need blog tour hosts for them. Just drop me an email if you want one and what day you want to host.

Also, if you’re a poet or a publisher of poetry, I’m looking for short guest posts from you about poetry for some fellow bloggers who want to join the tour but don’t feel they want to review a book. I’m looking to help them out with a guest post form you. Please email me with your ideas at savvyverseandwit AT gmail

Finally, anyone who would love to share the love of poetry through some giveaways in April, please sign up to donate books, poetry workshop classes, poetry journals, literary magazines, and any other poetry-related items. Send me an email to savvyverseandwit AT gmail with your donations and if you prefer I run the giveaway or you’d like to run it yourself.

OK, that’s it. I hope everyone can help out. See you for the big tour in April.

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Poetry Readers and Writers

by Serena on February 5, 2012

National Poetry Month 2012 is in April and I’m looking for guest posts from poetry readers and tour hosts for these guest posts. I want to fill out all of April early and be able to direct readers across the blogosphere for some great poetry discussion and celebration.

Not only will you be part of a tour involving poetry collections, poet interviews, guest posts from poetry readers, and maybe even just some great poems and discussion, you also get my new snazzy button — and I can’t believe I made it myself from a photo my hubby took at the National Arboretum. OK, that’s a lame reason to join the blog tour.

I’m hoping to put together some great giveaways for everyone who participates either as a commenter or as a blog tour host/guest blogger.

I hope that even if you don’t want to participate you’ll spread the word. I want to fill up every day in April. Dates will be a first come, first serve basis, and I’ll be posting the participating blogs on the schedule below as I hear from people.

Won’t you join me in celebrating poetry?

Sunday, April 1 — Savvy Verse & Wit’s Kickoff of the blog tour and giveaways
Monday, April 2 — Sara from Wordy Evidence of the Fact
Tuesday, April 3 — Jill from Rhapsody in Books will talk about Cole Porter
Wednesday, April 4 — Anna from Diary of an Eccentric, WWI Poetry Anthology
Thursday, April 5 — Audra from Unabridged Chick
Friday, April 6 — Michael Meyerhofer from Trouble With Hammers
and My Friend Amy hosts Sweta Vikram’s Guest Post
Saturday, April 7 — Dar from Peeking Between the Pages
Sunday, April 8 — Patty from Books, Thoughts and A Few Adventures…
Monday, April 9 — Naida from the Bookworm
Tuesday, April 10 — Kathy from Bermudaonion, tentatively THE WATCH THAT ENDS THE NIGHT by Allan Wolf
Wednesday, April 11 — Jeanne from Necromancy Never Pays, who will discuss litany poems and then show and discuss Richard Siken’s “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”
Thursday, April 12 — Julie from Read Handed will talk about 2010 Cider Press Book Award winning collection Play Button by Liz Robbins
Friday, April 13 – Melanie from The Indextrious Reader on superstitions and poetry
Saturday, April 14 — Cecelia from Adventures of Cecelia Bedelia
Sunday, April 15 — Ana from Things Mean a Lot
Monday, April 16 — Cassandra from Indie Reader Houston
Tuesday, April 17 — Ti from Book Chatter
Wednesday, April 18 — The Girl from Diary of an Eccentric
Thursday, April 19 — Pam from Bookalicious
Friday, April 20 — Tabatha of Tabatha Yeatts: The Opposite of Indifference
Saturday, April 21 — Megan from Solid Quarter
Sunday, April 22
Monday, April 23 – Adrienne Odasso from Seer of Ghosts and Weaver of Stories
Tuesday, April 24 — Arisa White from Arisa White
Wednesday, April 25
Thursday, April 26
Friday, April 27 — Wendy from Caribousmom will host Poet Michael Meyerhofer and his guest post on self-publishing
Saturday, April 28
Sunday, April 29
Monday, April 30

Thanks, everyone.

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Big Thank You . . .

May 2, 2011

I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who participated and commented during National Poetry Month. The blog tour was not as well organized this year given I’ve had a few life changes in recent months, but overall, everyone who participated did a great job and made me smile with each comment and contribution. [...]

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The Poets Laureate Anthology Edited by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt

April 29, 2011

The Library of Congress recently collaborated with Elizabeth Hun Schmidt to collect a select group of poems from the 43 U.S. Poets Laureate in The Poets Laureate Anthology, which lays out the poems in reverse chronological order (click for a list of the poets laureate) from the current laureate W.S. Merwin through the first poet [...]

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This Just In . . . One Time Only . . .

April 28, 2011

This just in from The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland: April 28 and April 29 a free Webcast of the Poetry Out Loud competition will be held live between 9 am and 8pm and 7 pm and 9 pm, respectively. On April 28, the semifinals with all 53 competitors will be held, with the finals [...]

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City of Regret by Andrew Kozma

April 28, 2011

City of Regret by Andrew Kozma is broken into five parts and each section is named for some element of the city — entrances, walls, living spaces, alleys, and exits. (You can check out my 32 Poems Magazine interview with the poet, here. And please visit Saturday’s Virtual Poetry Circle –link will be live April [...]

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Bone Key Elegies by Danielle Sellers

April 27, 2011

Danielle Sellers’ Bone Key Elegies is a collection of poems published by Main Street Rag Publishing as part of its Editor’s Select Poetry Series. (You can check out my previous 32 Poems Magazine interview with the poet, here, and one of her poems in the 81st Virtual Poetry Circle). Unlike eulogies that praise someone upon [...]

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City of a Hundred Fires by Richard Blanco

April 26, 2011

Richard Blanco‘s City of a Hundred Fires is a collection published by the University of Pittsburgh Press about the Cuban-American experience, which won the 1997 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. (You can check out one of his poems in the 40th Virtual Poetry Circle and my take on a reading he did at the local [...]

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White Egrets by Derek Walcott

April 19, 2011

White Egrets by Derek Walcott is a collection of deeply suggestive and blatant poems about the natural cycle of birth, life, and death and coming to terms with the later as friends, lovers, and others pass away leaving the narrator behind on the journey of life. Each poem uses nature imagery to paint a canvas [...]

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Guest Post: The Passion for Poetry: the Writer and the Reader

April 15, 2011

Today, we have an excellent guest post from Lu at Regular Rumination about generating a passion for poetry among readers from her perspective as a reader and writer of poetry. I can’t wait for all of us to share our methods for reading and/or writing poetry. Without further ado, here’s Lu: “You can’t be a [...]

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Guest Post: Novelists Who Are Poets Too

April 14, 2011

When setting up the National Poetry Month Blog Tour, a number of bloggers were eager to participate, including Valerie from Life Is a Patchwork Quilt. Today, I’m turning over the blog to her as she discusses some novelists that she recently discovered also wrote poetry. I hope you’ll share with her and me some of [...]

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Interview With Poet Halli Lilburn

April 12, 2011

Welcome to today’s interview with poet Halli Lilburn for the National Poetry Month Blog Tour. Please welcome her. 1. How would you introduce yourself to a crowded room eager to hang on your every word? Are you just a poet, what else should people know about you? I’m boring! My mind doesn’t come out my [...]

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