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Poetry Blogfest Day 1

Hello readers and welcome to day one of my poetry blogfest in support of my first book, a poetry collection! It's titled A TO Z POETRY and comes out Sept 19, 2013!

Today's challenge is Spine Poetry: use the spines of your stack of books to make poetry.

Here is an example (:
Every soul a star
cuz girls in pants
are my sister's keeper
keeping faith
in more than nineteen minutes. 

And another (:
Missing since Monday
The sisterhood of the traveling pants 
my Habibi 
so farewell to Manzanar 
in full tilt.

Also, four of my favorite poems will be picked at the end of the blogfest/this week and given a special feature in my poetry collection (with your permission of publication, of course)! Enjoy!

P.S. If you haven't already add your blog to the linky list. Thanks! 
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Ghadeer said…
That's super creative :P
September 9, 2013 at 8:47 AM
Morgan Dragonwillow said…
Thanks for this poetry challenge and good luck with your book release! If you would like to do a guest post on my blog during the release I would be happy to have you! Also you should get in touch with Nicole @Riverand when your book is released to do an author interview at Story Dam. I am very excited for you and I can't wait to read your book!
September 9, 2013 at 12:26 PM
Julie Jordan Scott said…
Oh, how I love this!! I just finished collecting & writing my poem. I decided to work on a second series this week as well in honor of your poetry challenge....

Merican Portrait... focusing on a slice of life in Downtown Bakersfield when I take my daughter to school each day. :~)
September 9, 2013 at 1:24 PM
Denise Covey said…
Hello Fida. I am so impressed at writing poetry using book spines. How creative! Even I might manage this!

Thank you for signing up for the WEP bloghop, MOVING ON. I hope you will post some of your poetry for us! I'll be looking forward to it.
September 10, 2013 at 12:56 AM
LaTonya Baldwin said…
Namoi Shihab Nye is a favorite poet of mine. Thrilled to see her in your stack.
September 16, 2013 at 9:02 AM
FICTION STATE OF MIND said…
Great job ! Happy Loveathon :)
February 15, 2014 at 1:01 PM
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