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.   Summers Past – Poems of Remembrance / Regret This thread is a call for new poems - they don’t have to be good, just newly written for this occasion.   The topic includes poems inspired by thoughts of summer past – of Remembrance / Regret – whatever spawns itself from this first line of thought. ...

                       Let It Be Spoken Post to this thread audio readings of your own poems!   Let us hear what you sound like!! We’re dying to hear you, and you know you want to. MP3, links to SoundCloud, youtube, or whatever other platform – embed it, link it, whatever – this is an audio thread,...

 Poeting alone is as bad as drinking alone. Dave!  You may have just written our new site motto --   Poeting alone is as bad as drinking alone.  :D :D   What do you think, eh?  Pretty catchy, eh?  Pretty poetic, eh? And if we can keep the IPA's flowing to  Aimé the Song-Maker maybe we get our Anthe...

Hi Colm, I think the more writers we have participating, the more it makes sense for each writer to have one personal thread for the posting of his/her own poems.  Several participants expressed the desire to be able to see a writer's collection of poems for the month -- case in point, 30 Ways to Di...

Indar - you are right of course.  Corrections have been made.

Sweet dreams. 
 

Please please please give feedback on how to do this better next year! Thoughts you might wan to comment on: Was the one massive thread sufficiently wieldy?  Or too unwieldy?  If we are to do one massive thread for all of the poems next year, how can the damn instructions be improved? Should each po...

Greetings, NaPoers.   :) The numbers are in for this year's celebration.  In 30 days we had 21 poets who wrote and posted 406 poems, 1,095 total posts, covering 97 pages.  These numbers are all up significantly over last year, when we had 14 poets who wrote and posted 271 poems, 709 total posts, cov...

Once this 2019 April NaPo Challenge is concluded, this thread will remain in place for about a month for you to reread and savor those poems that went by too fast, and to savor this celebration of the power and value of poetry in our lives. Keeping the thread open for another month will also give yo...

Marcel -- sorry on Tracy's behalf for his posting of his poem on your thread. The matter has been remedied and the author sanctioned. We expect it will not happen again.

Greetings,

You needn't post your poems both here and in the thread entitled Post Your Poems Here.

One or the other is sufficient.

You seem to be enjoying this; glad you are here.