Create Art Podcast Timothy Kimo Brien

What is National Poetry Writing Month?Welcome, art enthusiasts and wordsmiths alike, to another episode of Create Art Podcast! We are diving headfirst into the enchanting world of poetry as we celebrate National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). This annual event, which takes place every April, encourages poets and aspiring writers around the globe to embrace their creativity and commit to writing a poem each day for the entire month.
The Beauty of National Poetry Writing Month:
NaPoWriMo, similar to its prose-centric counterpart National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), is a celebration of the written word and the boundless creativity that can flow when one dedicates themselves to a daily practice. Poets of all levels of expertise are invited to take part, from seasoned wordsmiths to those just dipping their toes into the vast ocean of verse.
Create Art Podcast has always been a haven for artists to share their creative processes, and NaPoWriMo offers a unique opportunity for poets to reflect on their craft. With a daily commitment to producing poetry, participants discover new facets of their writing style, experiment with various forms, and explore uncharted emotional territories.

Prompt for today
here’s today’s (optional) prompt, taken from our 2016 archives. Today, we challenge you to write a poem in which you closely describe an object or place, and then end with a much more abstract line that doesn’t seemingly have anything to do with that object or place, but which, of course, really does. The “surprise” ending to this James Wright poem is a good illustration of the effect we’re hoping you’ll achieve. An abstract, philosophical kind of statement closing out a poem that is otherwise intensely focused on physical, sensory details.

Poem for TodayWinning 
16 April 24 
Awakened by a child's nightmare 
The rest of the morning wrecked with thoughts that won’t stop 
Remembering almost 16 years ago 
Sleeping on a beanbag 
Forgetting the name of the company I worked for 
Remembering how I used to roll my own cigarettes 
Smelling the encrusted tobacco on my yellowing fingers 
Buying my first house and worrying about how to pay for it 
The kid behind these eyes 
With spiked hair and a ponytail 
Modified mullet 
Dangling earrings 
Wearing a real leather jacket with chains 
Always afraid of the dark 
And the secrets it holds 
Finding a tribe in the places that god hated 
That same tribe dispersed throughout the big sky country 
Listening to an old guy singing songs badly, on purpose 
These thoughts come back as I hold my babies 
I am a man 
Not wanting to uphold the easy definition 
These thoughts come through at 6:34 AM EDT 
While a television plays the news of the world 
And the fan cools the air 
Moving it from one end of the room to the other 
A child with pink eye, a child with anxiety 
Two cats prowl the grounds 
One with a single clouded eye, the other with diabetes 
A snoring wife, whose dreams I am not allowed to see 
A half-painted picture by numbers facing away from me 
Photo Negatives is not how you should live your life 
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What is National Poetry Writing Month?Welcome, art enthusiasts and wordsmiths alike, to another episode of Create Art Podcast! We are diving headfirst into the enchanting world of poetry as we celebrate National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). This annual event, which takes place every April, encourages poets and aspiring writers around the globe to embrace their creativity and commit to writing a poem each day for the entire month.
The Beauty of National Poetry Writing Month:
NaPoWriMo, similar to its prose-centric counterpart National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), is a celebration of the written word and the boundless creativity that can flow when one dedicates themselves to a daily practice. Poets of all levels of expertise are invited to take part, from seasoned wordsmiths to those just dipping their toes into the vast ocean of verse.

Create Art Podcast has always been a haven for artists to share their creative processes, and NaPoWriMo offers a unique opportunity for poets to reflect on their craft. With a daily commitment to producing poetry, participants discover new facets of their writing style, experiment with various forms, and explore uncharted emotional territories.

Prompt for today
And now for our prompt – optional, as always! Today, we’d like to encourage you to take a look at @StampsBot, and become inspired by the wide, wonderful, and sometimes wacky world of postage stamps. For example, while it certainly makes sense that China would issue a stamp featuring a panda, it’s less clear to us why the Isle of Man should feel the need to honor 2001: A Space Odyssey in stamp form. From Romanian mushrooms to Sudanese weavers to the Marshall Islands getting far too excited over personal computing, stamps are a quasi-lyrical, quasi-bizarre look into what different cultures (or at least their postal authorities) hold dear.

And if you’re not on or able to access the @StampsBot account, fear not! You may find an inspiring stamp or two by perusing the online “International Philately” (say that three times fast) exhibit from the National Postal Museum.
Image I used https://twitter.com/StampsBot/status/1779219469635613169/photo/1
Poem for TodaySelf-Delivered Eulogy 
15 April 24 
It was the last album from a man who transcended what was normal 
It was his last goodbye 
No one was worthy to say the final words 
So, he said it all himself 
In a world that tried to define him 
He constantly defied expectations 
I wept on that day he left us 
And when I saw his song Lazarus on the screen 
I felt this was his end 
 
We won’t see another like him 
Saying that seems so passe’ 
We didn’t have much to compare him to 
Prince, yes, Hendrix possibly 
Freddy and Leonard were cut from the same cloth 
And I wept when they passed 
There was a hole that refused to be filled 
No one could console me 
No one ever will 
 
He was a black star in a sky full of light 
He marked his ending with one last curtain call 
Leaving us with one last goodbye 
Thise who mocked him 
And tried to take his hero status down a...

What is National Poetry Writing Month?Welcome, art enthusiasts and wordsmiths alike, to another episode of Create Art Podcast! We are diving headfirst into the enchanting world of poetry as we celebrate National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). This annual event, which takes place every April, encourages poets and aspiring writers around the globe to embrace their creativity and commit to writing a poem each day for the entire month.
The Beauty of National Poetry Writing Month:
NaPoWriMo, similar to its prose-centric counterpart National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), is a celebration of the written word and the boundless creativity that can flow when one dedicates themselves to a daily practice. Poets of all levels of expertise are invited to take part, from seasoned wordsmiths to those just dipping their toes into the vast ocean of verse.
Create Art Podcast has always been a haven for artists to share their creative processes, and NaPoWriMo offers a unique opportunity for poets to reflect on their craft. With a daily commitment to producing poetry, participants discover new facets of their writing style, experiment with various forms, and explore uncharted emotional territories.

Prompt for today
Today’s (optional) prompt asks you to write a poem of at least ten lines in which each line begins with the same word (e.g., “Because,” “Forget,” “Not,” “If”). This technique of beginning multiple lines with the same word or phrase is called anaphora, and has long been used to give poems a driving rhythm and/or a sense of puzzlebox mystery. To give you more context, here’s an essay by Rebecca Hazelton on her students’ “adventures in anaphora,” and a contemporary poem that uses anaphora to great effect: Layli Long Soldier’s “Whereas.”

Poem for TodayListless Is How 
14 April 24 
Listless is how I wake 
Looking at my goals of the day 
What I need to accomplish 
Needless chores each and every day 
Actions that won’t be remembered in perpetuity 
Listless is how I feel 
As the motions that are meaningless begin to take shape 
Looking at all the things I want to fill this hole in my soul 
Watching the dust pile up 
I can’t even keep up with cataloging the objects that I once thought I desired 
Listless is how I live my life 
Without interest in the outcome 
Without passion that used to drive me on 
Without the interest in learning new things 
Without challenging the status quo 
Listless is how I move through the day 
Pushing through the fog that is comprised of mental strain 
Pushing through the obstacles I place in front of me 
Pushing through the mud that becomes paintings 
Pushing through the words on the page 
Listless is how I sleep 
Never getting the rest that I find is required 
Never inspired by what I see in dreams 
Never recharging myself and taking naps that pushes me farther behind 
Never catching up and going ahead of where I want to be 
Listless is how I never wanted to be 
Avoiding the trap of thinking none of this...

What is National Poetry Writing Month?Welcome, art enthusiasts and wordsmiths alike, to another episode of Create Art Podcast! We are diving headfirst into the enchanting world of poetry as we celebrate National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). This annual event, which takes place every April, encourages poets and aspiring writers around the globe to embrace their creativity and commit to writing a poem each day for the entire month.
The Beauty of National Poetry Writing Month:
NaPoWriMo, similar to its prose-centric counterpart National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), is a celebration of the written word and the boundless creativity that can flow when one dedicates themselves to a daily practice. Poets of all levels of expertise are invited to take part, from seasoned wordsmiths to those just dipping their toes into the vast ocean of verse.

Create Art Podcast has always been a haven for artists to share their creative processes, and NaPoWriMo offers a unique opportunity for poets to reflect on their craft. With a daily commitment to producing poetry, participants discover new facets of their writing style, experiment with various forms, and explore uncharted emotional territories.

Prompt for today
 our optional prompt for the day asks you to play with rhyme. Start by creating a “word bank” of ten simple words. They should only have one or two syllables apiece. Five should correspond to each of the five senses (i.e., one word that is a thing you can see, one word that is a type of sound, one word that is a thing you can taste, etc). Three more should be concrete nouns of whatever character you choose (i.e., “bridge,” “sun,” “airplane,” “cat”), and the last two should be verbs. Now, come up with rhymes for each of your ten words. (If you’re having trouble coming up with rhymes, the wonderful Rhymezone is at your service). Use your expanded word-bank, with rhymes, as the seeds for your poem. Your effort doesn’t actually have to rhyme in the sense of having each line end with a rhymed word but try to use as much soundplay in your poem as possible.

Poem for TodayWord bank: 
See : turntable 

Hear :music 

Touch : prickly 
Taste : sour 

Smell : vinyl 
Concrete noun : 

Speaker 
Record 

Sleeve 

Verb :  
Cradle 

Lift 
 
Analog Escape
13 April 24 
I escape to my mancave and gaze at the turntable 
When I am able 
The music that escapes the speakers 
The kick fills my ears and I am feeling weaker 
My skins sensation is prickly 
The heart beats quickly 
When the record spins 
My hand moves toward the air 
And when the sounds stop, I open another sleeve 
And begin to weave my mind into a sour mood 
I feel dower by the hour 
And cradle the next vinyl 
The fable I tell myself makes me mindful of the time 
And I spin another until I find my favorite thing 
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What is National Poetry Writing Month?Welcome, art enthusiasts and wordsmiths alike, to another episode of Create Art Podcast! We are diving headfirst into the enchanting world of poetry as we celebrate National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). This annual event, which takes place every April, encourages poets and aspiring writers around the globe to embrace their creativity and commit to writing a poem each day for the entire month.
The Beauty of National Poetry Writing Month:
NaPoWriMo, similar to its prose-centric counterpart National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), is a celebration of the written word and the boundless creativity that can flow when one dedicates themselves to a daily practice. Poets of all levels of expertise are invited to take part, from seasoned wordsmiths to those just dipping their toes into the vast ocean of verse.
Create Art Podcast has always been a haven for artists to share their creative processes, and NaPoWriMo offers a unique opportunity for poets to reflect on their craft. With a daily commitment to producing poetry, participants discover new facets of their writing style, experiment with various forms, and explore uncharted emotional territories.

Prompt for today
Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that plays with the idea of a “tall tale.” American tall tales feature larger-than-life characters like Paul Bunyan (who is literally larger than life), Bulltop Stormalong (also gigantic), and Pecos Bill (apparently normal-sized, but he doesn’t let it slow him down). If you’d like to see a modern poetic take on the tall tale, try Jennifer L. Knox’s hilarious poem, “Burt Reynolds FAQ.” Your poem can revolve around a mythical character, one you make up entirely, or add fantastical elements into a real person’s biography.

Poem for TodayThe Sprelly Man 
12 April 24 
Peanut allergies be damned 
Let me tell you the tale of one 
Who has thrived in what some call  
The dark ages of these legumes 
 
Bright and colorful is he 
Tasty and smooth is his body 
When left to long 
He splits into oil and mass 
 
Don’t leave the Sprelly Man in the cupboard too long 
Take him out daily 
For your source of protein 
And sweetness 
 
Pair him up with his dear friend Pineapple Jelly lad 
Spread him all over the best bread money can buy 
And you too will change your religion 
Or at least your thoughts of the simple PB&J sandwich 
 
 
Sprelly man wants you to be stronger 
Happier than you have ever been 
Sprelly Man is looking out for your best interests 
Better than a high school counselor 
 
I met the man of Sprelly long ago 
His beard was blacker than a new moon night 
Deeper than the ocean 
More manly than he had a right to be 
 
We talk about his exploits 
When I patron his store 
A place of...

What is National Poetry Writing Month?Welcome, art enthusiasts and wordsmiths alike, to another episode of Create Art Podcast! We are diving headfirst into the enchanting world of poetry as we celebrate National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). This annual event, which takes place every April, encourages poets and aspiring writers around the globe to embrace their creativity and commit to writing a poem each day for the entire month.
The Beauty of National Poetry Writing Month:
NaPoWriMo, similar to its prose-centric counterpart National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), is a celebration of the written word and the boundless creativity that can flow when one dedicates themselves to a daily practice. Poets of all levels of expertise are invited to take part, from seasoned wordsmiths to those just dipping their toes into the vast ocean of verse.

Create Art Podcast has always been a haven for artists to share their creative processes, and NaPoWriMo offers a unique opportunity for poets to reflect on their craft. With a daily commitment to producing poetry, participants discover new facets of their writing style, experiment with various forms, and explore uncharted emotional territories.

Prompt for today
Finally, our optional prompt for the day honors the “ones” in the number 11. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write either a monostich, which is a one-line poem, or a poem made up of one-liner style jokes/sentiments. Need inspiration? Take a look at Joe Brainard’s poem “30 One-Liners” or Frank O’Hara’s “Lines for the Fortune Cookies.”

Poem for TodayThings The South Taught This Yankee 
11 April 24 
Texas:  
If offered a beer, you drink it, even if you hate beer because you don’t turn down hospitality 
It's always bigger in Texas, whatever it is 
Armadillos that you run over are funnier in sombreros and cans of the beer that you hate, take a picture 
Playing Me and Bobby magee and breaking out into the Peanuts theme song is only done in Mexican bars 
Don’t mess with Texas 
Not all who live in Texas are bigoted christians, some are as heathen as you are 
Remember the Alamo, and watch out for Ozzy’s piss and freshly chewed bat heads 
The bigger the belt buckle the smaller the dick 
Everyone is armed, don’t start a fight 
Y’all ain’t from here is a warning shot 
Grits made with cherries are delicious 
Pickled Okra is a food group 
I am more man that you could ever be and more woman than you could ever have 
This ain’t Burger King, you get it my way or you don’t get the damn thing 
 
North Carolia: 
Maddog and nighttrane make for an interesting morning 
Don’t go into an Airborne bar unless you are Airborne 
Outer Banks = OBX, don’t ask why, there isn’t an airport there 
Anything you can do I can do better, hold my beer  
Say it with me FayetteNam 
 
Virginia: 
The war of Northern Aggression 
If you ain’t from here you are a carpet bagger 
You are not a resident unless you were born here, don’t care if you pay taxes 
Its’s a commonwealth not a state 
95 is a parking lot...