i am still glowing and full from last week’s octavia e. butler celebration at spelman. the event was the second one hosted by the humble and brilliant patternmaster tananarive due, […]
Read More… from reflections on the octavia e. butler celebration at spelman
look at this list of actual sea shell names, and use one or more of them to write a poem. on the back porch sits the pile of shuttlecock volva […]
write a ruba’i. AABA. multiple stanzas makes it a rubaiyat. 1. we are not the graced or winged ones our bare bodies cannot seek the sun i offer up a […]
Read More… from napowrimo poem 18: moments of prayer rubaiyat
write a poem in which you very specifically describe something in terms of at least three of the five senses: this day blurs a wild chaos before me i hear […]
write a ten-line poem in which each line is a lie. i am stronger than the oceans in this moment i need for nothing i am a clear day to […]
prompt: write a poem in terza rima, the form invented by dante and used in the divine comedy. it consists of three line stanzas with a chained rhyme scheme – […]
today for the first time since december, beyonce’s ‘drunk in love’ came on a playlist and i skipped it. to honor this completion of a small complicated era of obsessive […]
prompt: write a poem in which every sentence, except for the last one, is in the form of a question. i feel very together in my life right now. the […]
Read More… from napowrimo poem 14: what is this togetherness?
write a poem that contains at least one kenning. Kennings were metaphorical phrases developed in Nordic sagas. At their simplest, they generally consist of two nouns joined together, which imaginatively […]
prompt is a “replacement” poem. Pick a common noun for a physical thing, for example, “desk” or “hat” or “bear,” and then pick one for something intangible, like “love” or […]