NaPoWriMo 2025 summary report
NaPoWriMo 2025 summary report
by Carl Bettis
We did it. My heteronyms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(literature)) and I wrote a poem a day (collectively, not each) in April 2025. They aren't all good poems. Most of them aren't. But a few are, or could be with revision. "30 poems" was the goal. "A few good poems" was the stretch goal.
The poems:
| Date | Title | Author | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-01 | Prodigal | Bryant Jacobi | |
| 2025-04-02 | Never | Basil Cartryte | |
| 2025-04-03 | Career moves | Carl Bettis | |
| 2025-04-04 | Almost Here | Bryant Jacobi | |
| 2025-04-05 | (untitled) | Carl Bettis | A not-really tanka I wrote about participating in the April 5th Hands Off event. |
| 2025-04-06 | Birthday Card | Basil Cartryte | |
| 2025-04-07 | Grasshopper Haiku | Sturgis Giteau | |
| 2025-04-08 | Invitation to a Preacher | Thomas Gorn | |
| 2025-04-09 | (untitled) | sylvester hobson | a haiku. |
| 2025-04-10 | Pierrot Today | Mort Duffy | |
| 2025-04-11 | Waste Not | Carl Bettis | Writing group prompt: Eggs. |
| 2025-04-12 | How to Stay When You Aren’t Staying | Roynald MacRoss | |
| 2025-04-13 | An Elegant Solution | Ian Erinson | |
| 2025-04-14 | Legal Tender | Ian Erinson | |
| 2025-04-15 | Palinode in Advance | Ian Erinson | A palinode is a poem of retraction. |
| 2025-04-16 | Providence | Ian Erinson | |
| 2025-04-17 | Suddenly Innocent | Basil Cartryte | |
| 2025-04-18 | naturally | sylvester hobson | |
| 2025-04-19 | Time | Mort Duffy | |
| 2025-04-20 | Easter Stone | Basil Cartryte | Easter poem, adult themes. |
| 2025-04-21 | IWL (In Waking Life) | Carl Bettis | |
| 2025-04-22 | Defense | Roynald MacRoss | |
| 2025-04-23 | 116 | Basil Cartryte | In honor of Shakespeare's birthday, a mutilation of his 116th Sonnet. |
| 2025-04-24 | Advance! | Thomas Gorn | |
| 2025-04-25 | Prophylactic Tanka | Sturgis Giteau | Most people would not call this a tanka, but it has 5 lines. |
| 2025-04-26 | From Each According | Ian Erinson | |
| 2025-04-27 | Looking at the Stars | Bryant Jacobi | A take on an Oscar Wilde quote. |
| 2025-04-28 | Cell Phone Hymn | Roynald MacRoss | |
| 2025-04-29 | In a Nutshell | Basil Cartryte | |
| 2025-04-30 | the knowing ones | sylvester hobson |
Final tally:
- Basil Cartryte: 6 poems
- Bryant Jacobi: 3 poems
- Thomas Gorn: 2 poems
- Ian Erinson: 5 poems
- sylvester hobson: 3 poems
- Sturgis Giteau: 2 poems
- Mort Duffy: 2 poems
- Roynald MacRoss: 3 poems
- Carl Bettis: 4 poems
