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Hard to be a moderate moderator\nHard to gauge the scale\nIn a super-sized sociopathic\nAlgorithm-driven\nHate-heated, bot-based \nBoiler room;\nJust another passing platform\nSoft-swooshing, hot-air-hissing \nRusty, rattling\nFraught follow-trains \nCrashing - Who doesn't love \nA good train wreck?<\/em>\nPowerful loco motives\nCrazy-clattering \nOff rusted,\nBusted rails.\n<\/pre>\n
Todays Poet<\/h2>\n
Sonia Sanchez<\/strong> – an American poet, writer, and professor. Sanchez was a leading writer in the Black Arts Movement who has written numerous books of poetry, short stories, critical essays, plays, and children\u2019s books. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman by Sonia Sanchez | Poetry Magazine (poetryfoundation.org)<\/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.\u00a0You can see the list of participants<\/a> – 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
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    Social media platforms, like train platforms, have the power to bring people together from all over the world. But they can also divide us and send us hurtling in opposite directions. Mind the gap. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1012190,"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-1011364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 00:57:22","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\/1011364","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=1011364"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012751,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011364\/revisions\/1012751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1012190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011364"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jahangiri.us\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=1011364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}