march thirty one poetry

An introduction to a new season

Listen as I explain, "What Is Poetry?" for National Poetry Month. Thank you for listening and make sure you subscribe to my podcast on Spotify. And please share with a friend!

My poem for April 3rd, 2025 for the Writers Digest Poem A Day Challenge. Prompt: Short. Be sure to subscribe to my podcast on Spotify and please share with a friend.

My poem for April 2, 2025. The Writer's Digest, Poem Of The Day prompt, From Where I'm Sitting. Make sure you subscribe to my podcast on Spotify and please share with a friend.

Kicking off National Poetry Writing Month with my first poem inspired by the Writers Digest Poem A Day (PAD) Challenge. Today's prompt was The Best of Times or The Worst of Times. Thank you so much for listening and be sure to subscribe and please share with others.

Happy April. Today kicks off National Poetry Month. Listen as I share the history of this special month as well as ways to get involved and flex your own creative poetry juices! Be sure to subscribe and please share with others.

Listen in as I share my updates on my Nanowrimo journey during the month of November for 11/15/23. Make sure you subscribe to my podcast and share with a friend.

Listen as I share updates on my Nanowrimo 2023 journey for Week One. Make sure you subscribe to my podcast on Spotify and subscribe to my newsletter at https://mfaoverlatte.substack.com

It's been a while. Listen in as I share all things Preptober and relaunch the podcast and learn how even poets can participate in Nanowrimo. Also, make sure you subscribe to my MFA Over Latte newsletter at https://mfaoverlatte.substack.com

Listen as I share two poems from my #28DaysOfPoetry collection. Please share with others and make sure you subscribe to my podcast and to my MFA Over Latte newsletter, https://mfaoverlatte.substack.com

Listen to my first night time recorded episode of my #28DaysOfPoetry series with my Day Four poem, when on weekends.

Listen to Day Three of my #28DaysOfPoetry series, poem entitled, on cold days. Make sure you subscribe to my podcast and share

Listen to Day 2 of my #28DaysOfPoetry series. This #sixwordpoem was inspired by recent events in Memphis with the death of Tyre Nichols

Join me on my journey through the month of February, Black History Month, with my #28DaysOfPoetry series and my self imposed #sixwordpoem challenge.

Join me as I recite poems from my April Poems Collection, all written in the month of April over various years. I'll keep you posted on the drop date for the full collection. And as always, thank you for listening.

Thank you for listening to my poem for 4/4/22, National Poetry Writing Month.

Join me for National Poetry Month as I try to stay in the game with 30 poems over 30 days. Today's poem is entitled Chance.

Listen to another episode in my Throwback Thursday Poetry series. This week I'm sharing Several Haiku written in 2006. Follow my blog at http://marchthirtyone.wordpress.com

Listen to my latest podcast episode in my Throwback Thursday Poetry series. Here's Ride or Die, circa 2020.

Thank for listening to my Throwback Thursday Poetry series here on the March Thirty One Poetry podcast. Today, I bring you Good Morning, from the April Poems collection.

I'm launching a series of Throwback poems, pieces I wrote that I want to revisit with you. Listen to The Hip Hop Blues, written in 2019 in response to the new movement in hip hop music. And don't forget to subscribe to my podcast and my blog. See link in bio.

In honor of National Poetry Writing Month, Day 4 writing prompt from Writer's Digest, Active

In honor of National Poetry Writing Month, Day 3 writing prompt from the Writer's Digest poetry challenge, The Future

In honor of National Poetry Writing Month 2021, Day 2 of the Writer's Digest Poem A Day challenge, today's poetry prompts is Communication Subscribe to the march thirty one poetry podcast and read my full poem, Before Technology, below: before technology . 4/3/21 Before cell phones  We were forced  To pick up the phone  Yes, a land line  Rotary  Push button  Dial a number   No caller ID  Crossing your fingers  That someone was home  Hoping and waiting  Just to hear a real voice  No voicemail  No using our fingers  To text a message  That was not an option   But using our fingers  To dial a number   7 digits  That we had to memorize  Remember  Phone books told us how to find   The things we needed  Address books told us  How to connect   To the people we needed  How did we ever get along   Without our devices  Easy  We called  We listened  Then hung up the phone  Until someone   Called us back 

In honor of National Poetry Writing Month, Day 1 writing prompt from Writer's Digest, Introduction.

Join me as I relaunch my March Thirty One Poetry podcast and kickoff National Poetry Writing Month 2021. My original poem honors a member of The Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron who passed away in 2011.

Kicking off National Poetry Month with a poem I wrote in 2015

Two Haiku written in 2012 with references to technology.

Two Haiku, one about weather (or is it) and one about reading.

Haiku about hair texture.

Today is February 4th. And although I'm still recuperating from my dental surgery, I still wanted to make sure I shared a poem with listeners today. It's a haiku inspired by those who paved the way in honor of Black History Month. Enjoy!

Two poems highlighting social justice and privilege from my upcoming collection, the black poems.

February kicks off my annual poetry writing/reading challenge as well as Black History Month. Here's to 2020.

This poem, originally published on my blog in written form, is in honor of the late great, Gil Scott Heron, one of my inspirations for writing.

This rough draft of a poem is dedicated to black women, our struggles and the politics of our hair

From my collection, the black poems, my contribution this week, touches on the stories we've been told about race and color.

Two poems today, one highlighting the roads leading to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and a lighthearted ode to National Burrito Day

Two poems from my "haiku in the key of life" collection entitled Business and Stress.

I just celebrated a birthday so I thought I'd share this with you. A new poem from a forthcoming collection entitled 45 & adulting.

Original poetry from my forthcoming collection, The April Poems.

This winter seems to not want to leave. I channeled my inner Shakespeare, and wrote this poem in mourning for the short lived spring we've had this year. Enjoy!

What happens when you first lay eyes upon someone? This poem examines that.

Because it's Sunday, I wanted to share one of my favorite scriptures, reciting it as poetry.

A late night poem to honor my commitment to national poetry month. Showing My Age is a poem I wrote in 2006. Recently, I celebrated my 45th birthday and this poem was appropriate to revisit

This poem is from a writing prompt, a haiku for your favorite television show, from National Poetry Month 2013.