{"id":5385,"date":"2012-04-02T08:13:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T12:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=5385"},"modified":"2012-04-02T08:17:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T12:17:50","slug":"lr-news-happy-national-poetry-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/lr-news-happy-national-poetry-month\/","title":{"rendered":"LR News: Happy National Poetry Month!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pocket Broadside #1 - Vanni Taing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

April is National Poetry Month, and as usual, we are celebrating it on the LR <\/em>Blog with two new special projects.<\/p>\n

Digital Broadsides for National Poetry Month<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whereas in the past, we’ve run a prompt contest during April, this year, we’ve decided to do something a little different. Because, in our view, National Poetry Month is as much about encouraging the reading <\/em>of poetry as it is about encouraging the writing <\/em>of poetry, we wanted to produce a\u00a0project that would enable the sharing of \u00a0Asian American poetry beyond the confines of our magazine and blog. \u00a0To that end, we’re thrilled to be able to announce our very first series of Digital Broadsides. \u00a0Every Friday during the month of April, in lieu of \u00a0a regular prompt, we’ll be offering a free, downloadable broadside featuring a poem that’s appeared in a past issue of LR<\/em>. \u00a0Each broadside has been\u00a0designed by a different Asian American artist (most of whom are also poets and LR <\/em>contributors), and will be offered in two different formats: as a desktop wallpaper,\u00a0which we hope will inspire you to write each time you open your computer,\u00a0\u00a0and as an 8.5 x 11 printable .PDF, which we hope you’ll print out, post, and share. \u00a0You can look out for the first of the series\u2014featuring poet\/artist Debbie Yee<\/a>‘s design for R.A. Villanueva’s poem “Vanitas”<\/a> (from Issue 4)\u2014this Friday, when we’ll release it on the blog.<\/p>\n

Pocket Broadsides on Tumblr<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pocket Broadsides project (about which I wrote extensively in my AWP reflection post<\/a>) is now on Tumblr<\/a>! \u00a0Since many of the Pocket Broadsides are miniature poems, we thought that April would be the perfect time to launch an online archive of the project. Starting today, we will be posting images of up to two pieces a week\u2014of both\u00a0the Pocket Broadsides we brought to AWP (in serial order), and the visitor-written pieces that we received in exchange. \u00a0The series kicks off with Pocket Broadside #1<\/a>, a short poem by LR <\/em>Issue 1 contributor<\/a>, Vanni Taing<\/a>. \u00a0At least through the month of April, we’ll be posting notices on the LR\u00a0<\/em>blog each time we post a new poem to Tumblr, but to read each Pocket Broadside as soon as it’s released, please add pocketbroadsides.tumblr.com<\/a> to your list of RSS subscriptions. If you’re on Tumblr yourself, please follow us and re-post!<\/p>\n

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That’s all of our special announcements for April. \u00a0We hope you’ll join us in helping to spread the word about Asian American poetry this month\u2014both through the Digital Broadsides and by linking to and re-posting the Pocket Broadsides as they appear on Tumblr.<\/p>\n

Do you have any special celebrations or project planned for National Poetry Month? \u00a0We’d love to hear about them. \u00a0Drop us a line in the comments or via e-mail. \u00a0If we like your project and you’re documenting it online, we’ll link to it on Facebook or Twitter, and maybe even post about it here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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