Ever since announcing the Kindku, our poetry form, we have been blown away by your feedback. Some of you dived right in and sent us beautiful poems. Others are very intrigued but want to see more examples before they give the Kindku a try.
Today, we are very excited to announce the upcoming release of our new book, which, we hope, will inspire you to write kindku and sixku poetry on a regular basis!
Rhythm Flourishing: A Collection of Kindku and Sixku is a multimedia project that features positive and uplifting poems inspired by a bunch of major writers (e.g., Elizabeth Bishop, John Keats, Lord Byron, Christina Rossetti, Maya Angelou, Pablo Neruda); as well as some great photography.
Rhythm Flourishing: A Collection of Kindku and Sixku will be released on September 3, 2020. You can pre-order your copy for $6.99 $3.99 until then.
We have two pieces of news to share with you today. We’ll start with the good one.
That’s it, the wait is over! The Auroras & Blossoms NaPoWriMo Anthology: 2020 Edition is out! We want to thank all the poets who helped make this anthology a reality:
Donna Allard, Chandni Asnani, Maria L. Berg, Jamie Brian, Jimena Cerda, Jaewon Chang, Ravichandra Chittampalli, Sandra Christensen, Mimi DiFrancesca, Fiona D’Silva, Kate Duff, Judy Dykstra-Brown, Amanda M. Eifert, Stacie Eirich, Michael Erickson, Deveree Extein, Jack M. Freedman, Alicia Grimshaw, Jenny Hayut, Patrick Jennings, Liam Kennedy, Ting Lam, Rose Loving, Michele Mekel, Ally Nellmapius, William Reynolds, Madhumita Sarangi, Anna Schoenbach, Julie A. Sellers, Jonathan Shipley, Dorian J. Sinnott, Krupali Trivedi, Angela van Son, Michele Vecchitto, Penny Wilkes, and Gemma Wiseman.
As editors, we are blown away by your talent. Your commitment to bringing positivity to the forefront (despite very trying times) is exactly what Auroras & Blossoms stands for!
To purchase a copy of The Auroras & Blossoms NaPoWriMo Anthology: 2020 Edition, click here.
Now onto the bad news. We have made the difficult decision to cancel the PoArtMo 2020 Contest. The reason is simple: After three weeks, the number of entries that did not fit the criteria of the contest had far outweighed the number of qualifying entries, hence creating a lot of extra work for us.
With that said, we are happy to report that our call for submissions to the PoArtMo 2020 Anthology has received more positive attention. As a result, we are extending the deadline for the PoArtMo 2020 Anthology to August 23, 2020! So, please continue submitting to us!
NB: The PoArtMo Anthology is open to all types of artists, not just poets.
April was such an incredibly busy month and went by in a flash. However, we can still celebrate all of the wonderful inspirational poetry that was written over this period, thanks to the release of a dedicated anthology of poetry organised by Auroras & Blossoms.
The Auroras & Blossoms NaPoWriMo Anthology: 2020 Edition
You can get it now for a reduced price ($8.99 $5.99) until its official publication date on June 23rd. At nearly one hundred pages in length and featuring the works of 38 poets, it contains a fascinating series of poems that are all inspirational, motivational and moving in the extreme.
Featured poets, here is a banner that you can use to display on your websites, blogs and elsewhere. We ask you to link to The Auroras & Blossoms NaPoWriMo Anthology: 2020 Edition page: https://abpoetryjournal.com/napowrimo-anthology-2020.
Our New PoArtMo Contest and Anthology!
Now that NaPoWriMo is over, what else do we have to look forward to in the art world for the rest of the year?
How about an new inspirational artistic movement!
June 1st sees the launch of the very first PoArtMo (Positive Art Month) run by Auroras & Blossoms. For all of you who are sad that NaPoWriMo is finished, we strongly suggest that you take a look and check out our PoArtMo events, which we are celebrating through the month of June and also throughout the rest of the year too.
