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Frost on Daffodils<\/h2>\n

Stretching sunward, leaves crack frozen soil,
\nDaffodil blossoms crane their necks and yawn
\nUnfurling, yellow, in the warmth of dawn
\nAfter April’s showers, God’s slumbering creatures toil.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Holly Jahangiri (April 6, 2023)<\/em><\/p>\n

Today’s Poets<\/h2>\n

Robert Frost<\/strong> – a familiar and well-loved American poet, Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes, was nominated for the\u00a0Nobel Prize in Literature 31 times, and was chosen as Poet Laureat of Vermont twice. Read more here<\/a>. If you think that you understand Frost’s famous poem, “The Road Not Taken,” watch this:<\/p>\n

What we\u2019ve gotten wrong about this Robert Frost classic – YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Robert Frost interview + poetry reading (1952) – YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Athena Farrokhzad<\/strong> – a Persian-Swedish poet who the Kenyon Review<\/a> says “makes palpable the conflict between the expectations of the oppressor and the realities of the oppressed.”<\/p>\n

“To think that something so scorned can be made into porcelain” – Athena Farrokhzad – Sweden – Poetry International<\/a><\/p>\n

Athena Farrokhzad on Writing and Poetry – YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

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April is National Poetry Month<\/a>. This year marks its 27th year. NaPoWriMo<\/a> – 30 days of writing poems – is poets’ answer to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).<\/p>\n

This coincides with the A to Z Blogging Challenge<\/a>, now celebrating its 13th anniversary. Some participants choose a theme; others wing it. Doesn’t matter! The real challenge is to build a practice of writing daily. I think I stuck with it…once. There’s still time to sign up – registration ends April 9. You can see the list of participants – I’m sure they’d love it if you’d visit and comment on their blogs.<\/p>\n

This month, my goal is to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Write a poem a day and share it – uncurated<\/a> – here; and<\/li>\n
  2. Highlight some poets you may be unfamiliar with.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I encourage you to click the links to read about them and their work. I plan to choose a diverse array of classical and contemporary poets – indigenous poets, Black poets, women poets, LGBTQ poets – that challenge us to see the world differently while also tapping into universal themes and emotions.<\/p>\n

    Remember, too, that comments and conversation are always welcome here. (Spammers<\/em>, on the other hand, will be tossed into the moat or mocked, so before you leave an irrelevant comment or drop a link, consider that it’s fair game!)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Frost on Daffodils Stretching sunward, leaves crack frozen soil, Daffodil blossoms crane their necks and yawn Unfurling, yellow, in the warmth of dawn After April’s showers, God’s slumbering creatures toil. \u2014 Holly Jahangiri (April 6, 2023) Today’s Poets Robert Frost – a familiar and well-loved American poet, Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes, was nominated for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1011563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_has_post_settings":[],"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-1011311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 20:51:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011311"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011564,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011311\/revisions\/1011564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011311"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=1011311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}